In 2023, whose 90-year-old U.S. Gymnastics title record did Biles break?

In 2023, Simone Biles broke Alfred Jochim’s 90-year-old U.S. Gymnastics title record.

Biles won her eighth U.S. national all-around championship at the 2023 USA Gymnastics Championships. That victory moved her past Jochim’s record of seven national-level titles, which had stood since his last championship in 1933.

Jochim, whose full name was Alfred August Jochim, was an American men’s artistic gymnast and a two-time silver medalist at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. His record endured across several generations before Biles surpassed it nearly nine decades later.

The record is sometimes described using Jochim’s nickname, “Al,” so “Al Jochim” and “Alfred Jochim” refer to the same person. The other choices are prominent American gymnasts, but none held the specific seven-title record that Biles broke in 2023.