USA takes home five medals on final day of World Championships, Biles Reaches 10 Career Gold Medals, 14 Overall

GLASGOW, Great Britain – Three-time World all-around champion Simone Biles of Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre, picked up World gold medals number nine and 10 on balance beam and floor exercise, respectively, today as the 2015 World Gymnastics Championships came to a close at the SSE Hydro Arena in Glasgow, Great Britain. Biles now holds the record for most World Championships gold medals by a female gymnast, which was previously held by Russia’s Svetlana Khorkina, Romania’s Gina Gogean and the Soviet Union’s Larisa Latynina at nine. Biles’ career 14 medals put her in a tie for third with Latynina and behind only Khorkina (20) and Gogean (15). 

In addition to Biles’ two golds, the U.S. picked up three medals with Danell Leyva of Miami/Team