Olympics 2025: Simone Biles wins stunning gold in women’s all-around gymnastics final

Simone Biles produced a decisive floor routine as the final gymnast to perform as she clinched gold in the women’s all-around final, with Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade winning silver and fellow American Sunisa Lee clinching bronze.

Simone Biles underlined her greatness in Paris once again as she triumphed in the women’s all-around final to win a sixth Olympic gold and second of the 2024 Games on Thursday.

Just as she had in the women’s team final two days ago, Biles closed the show with a soaring floor routine that confirmed her second gold medal of the Games by more than a point over her nearest rival, Rebeca Andrade of Brazil.

Despite superb preceding displays from Andrade and Biles’ team-mate, the defending all-around champion Sunisa Lee, by the time the all-conquering 27-year-old stepped onto a mat the outcome was a mere formality.

Biles’ score of 15.066 gave her a total of 59.131 that beat Andrade by 1.119 with Lee a further one and a half points behind in bronze. It gave Biles back the all-around title she first won in Rio in 2016.
Biles celebrated by embracing Lee, with whom she paraded with the USA flag, before dangling a silver goat necklace around her neck, a nod to her almost unanimously acknowledged status as the best her sport has seen and the ‘greatest of all time’.

“I made an unfortunate mistake on the uneven bars but I knew not to give up and to keep pushing. I was ecstatic with my performance,” Biles told the BBC.

“It feels amazing. I think I was a bit naïve in the process and I appreciate my craft a little bit more.