Simone Biles has won another gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, this time in the women’s vault final held on Saturday. This is her third gold medal in these video games. Earlier, she secured a gold medal for the group occasion very last towards the USA and also gained a gold medal inside the all-round very last, extending the Americans’ streak in vault medals to four consecutive video games.
Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade won the silver medal, her second silver and third medal overall in these games. Biles’ teammate Jade Carey won the bronze medal, her second medal here. Overall in her career, this marks Biles’ seventh gold and 10th standard medal, setting a brand new report for the most Olympic medals won by way of an American gymnast.Biles had previously won a gold medal in vault at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Today’s final individual event is the pommel horse, where US’s Stephen Nedoroscik is competing for a medal, which would be the fourth medal for any American since the Second World War.
US Today Sports is showing live results, scores, and highlights for the entire event.
Simone Biles Vault Score
Simone Biles added another gold medal to her collection.Biles clinched her second Olympic title in vault on Saturday, including to her gold medal from 2016. “Her tally now includes her 10th Olympic medal, with 7 of those shining brightly as gold.”. Biles has won three medals in these Paris Games, all of them gold. She still has to perform in the balance beam and floor exercise finals on Monday.
Biles scored 15.3 in vault, just 0.300 more than Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, who had won gold in vault at both the Tokyo Olympics and last year’s World Championships.
Rebeca Andrade Vault Score
Rebeca Andrade from Brazil achieved a total score of 14.966 points in the vault event, with 15.100 for her first vault and 14.833 for her second, solidifying her position and earning the silver medal.
Jade Carey Vault Score
Jade Carey won the bronze medal on Saturday afternoon in vault, claiming her second Olympic medal in the Paris Games. The 24-year-old Carey trailed behind Biles and Andrade in third place. She nailed her Cheng, which is the second hardest vault performed today, scoring 14.733 in her first attempt. Then she remarkably executed a clean double-twisting Yurchenko in her second attempt to surpass North Korea’s En Chae Oak and secure the fourth place.
This is the only apparatus final Carey qualified for, although she was also part of the American team that won gold on Tuesday. In qualifying, Carey said she was struggling with illness and digestion issues, although her mother said a few days later on NBC that the Oregon State athlete was feeling better. Carey won her third Olympic medal on Saturday, clinching a bronze in the women’s vault final; she also won gold at the 2021 Tokyo Games.
Women’s Vault Final Scores
Each gymnast performs two vaults, and their final score is the average of both.
Simone Biles of the USA achieved a score of 15.300 (15.700 on her first vault and 14.900 on the second).
- Rebeca Andrade from Brazil earned a total score of 14.966 (15.100 in her first vault and 14.833 in the second).
- Jade Carey, representing the USA, scored 14.466 (14.733 on her first vault and 14.200 on the second).
- En Chae Oak of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea achieved a score of 14.216 (14.066 on her first vault and 14.366 on the second).
- Valentina Georgieva from Bulgaria scored 13.983 (14.100 on her first vault and 13.866 on the second).
- Ellie Black, hailing from Canada, achieved a score of 13.933 (14.100 on her first vault and 12.633 on the second).
- Yeo Sejeong representing the Republic of Korea scored 13.416 (14.166 on her first vault and 12.666 on the second).
- Shallon Olsen, also from Canada, scored 13.366 (14.100 on her first vault and 12.633 on the second).
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