At the 2014 World Championships, Simone Biles became the second American woman to repeat as world all-around champion after Shannon Miller.
Biles won the world all-around title in 2013 and successfully defended it in 2014 in Nanning, China. Her second victory followed a clean all-around final, where she finished ahead of Romania’s Larisa Iordache and American teammate Kyla Ross.
Miller had previously repeated as world all-around champion in 1993 and 1994. Biles therefore joined a very short list of American women with consecutive world all-around victories. She was also the first gymnast of any nationality to repeat since Russia’s Svetlana Khorkina won in 2001 and 2003.
The 2014 championship strengthened Biles’s dominance beyond the all-around. She won team gold, balance-beam gold, and floor-exercise gold, while taking silver on vault. A common mix-up is to choose another Olympic-era American such as Nastia Liukin or Aly Raisman; neither was the earlier repeat world champion referenced here.