Biles has become well aware over the last three years that her every word and action carries far greater weight than she ever imagined. Liukin won the individual all-around gold medal, and Johnson won the balance beam gold medal. [1] American female gymnasts have participated in every Olympic Games since 1936 except for 1980. With her beaming smile and elaborate routines, Danielle Prince has won four All-Around Australian titles in 2011 and from 2013 to 2015 and a total of 21 individual gold medals. She was the 2008 Olympic All-Around gold medalist, the 2005 and 2007 world Champion on the Balance Beam and the 2005 world champion on the Uneven Bars. 2019 — bronze medal Sydney Barros, Skye Blakely, Kayla DiCello, Konnor McClain; Most decorated gymnasts. Simone Biles (United States) At number 1 in this list of top 10 best gymnasts in the world right now, … Top Women's Gymnastics Floor Routines of 2019 | Katelyn Ohashi … Olympic trials will soon be coming at us full steam setting the field for each country. With (another) world-title win to her name Thursday in Stuttgart, Germany, Simone Biles became the winningest female gymnast at the World Championship level in history. She has literally bent backwards to become her country’s greatest rhythmic gymnast. If a gymnast is currently injured but is still listed on her country's national team, she will be listed below. Those jaw-dropping routines that are rewriting her sport’s code of points and redefining what can be done on the competition floor? In 2016, she became the first female gymnast to win back to back medals in the All-Around since 2000. American women have won 48 medals at the Olympics – 9 in team all-around, 8 in individual all-around, 4 in vault, 8 in uneven bars, 10 in balance beam, and 9 in floor exercise. Names in italics are alternates who received a team medal. Check social media following one of her routines and you’ll find people -- from LeBron James to Michelle Obama to Chrissy Teigen -- struggling to distill what they’ve witnessed into 280 characters or fewer, with whatever they settle on typically followed by multiple exclamation points and a goat emoji, a nod to Biles being considered the Greatest Of All Time. These successes led to the nicknames Magnificent Seven, Fierce Five, and Final Five, respectively. Nastia? [4] The United States won team gold in 2003, 2007, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018, and 2019. Since their second-place finish at the 2010 Worlds, the US has never lost an Olympic or World team competition. Márta Károlyi headed the program after the 2000 Olympics, ushering in an era of success for the US as they became one of the most dominant countries in women's gymnastics. One of the prettiest athletes of the 2012 London Olympics was its most bemedalled gymnast and most bemedalled non-swimmer in the games. The irony, of course, is that there’s nothing casual or easy about it. The first American gymnast to win a medal at the World Championships was Cathy Rigby who won silver on beam in 1970. Eight national team gymnasts and one national team coach have been inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame: United States men's national gymnastics team, List of former United States women's national gymnastics team rosters, "United States Gymnastics Women's Team All-Around Results", "US Medalists at Worlds (Men's and Women's)", "Frederick Changed Gymnastics, But Boycott Ended Olympic Dream", http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article/25165931/simone-biles-wraps-gymnastics-world-championships-four-gold-medals, https://usagym.org/pages/pressbox/history/worlds_medalists_artistic.html, "Women's Artistic Gymnastics National Teams", "Valeri Liukin steps down as U.S. women's gymnastics team coordinator", "Valeri Liukin resigning from role with U.S. women's gymnastics team", "U.S. Women's Gymnastics Coordinator Valeri Liukin Suddenly Resigns", "[Annie] Heffernon is named vice president of women's gymnastics", "USA Gymnastics Women's Program Office Staff", National Women's Artistic Gymnastics Teams, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=United_States_women%27s_national_gymnastics_team&oldid=977391374, Women's national sports teams of the United States, Women's gymnastics teams in the United States, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 8 September 2020, at 15:29.