Biles rebounded from a subpar performance on the balance beam and scored a 15.966 in the floor exercise final with a series of difficult moves executed to near perfection, including the signature move named for her.
The Biles is a double layout with a half-twist and a blind landing. She performed the move, ending it with a stag leap that she had left out of her team performance but added back for the individual all-around.
Teammate Aly Raisman, the reigning Olympic champion on the floor, took second place with a score of 15.500, making it the second time this Olympics the two Americans will take stand on the podium to accept gold and silver.
The win makes Biles the first woman to win four gymnastics golds in a single Olympic Games since Romania’s Ecaterina Szabo in 1984. She leaves these Olympics as the most decorated gymnast with four golds and a bronze. No gymnast has won five medals at an Olympics since Nastia Liukin in 2008.
Her push for five golds was thwarted Monday when she had a misstep on the balance beam, taking home the bronze medal behind teammate Laurie Hernandez’s silver.Â
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