Simone Biles won five total medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Her haul included four gold medals and one bronze, making her one of the defining stars of the Games.
Biles won gold in the team competition, the individual all-around, vault, and floor exercise. Her bronze came on the balance beam after a balance check during her routine. She qualified for several event finals and became the first American female gymnast to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games.
Her Rio performance built on an extraordinary run before the Olympics. Biles had become the dominant all-around gymnast at the World Championships, combining powerful tumbling, difficult skills, and unusually consistent execution. In Rio, she also helped the United States win the team title by a large margin.
A frequent mix-up is confusing Biles’s five Rio medals with her larger career totals. Her 2016 result was five medals at one Olympics; it was not her lifetime Olympic total. The team gold also counts as one Olympic medal for her, just as individual event medals do.