FACTBOX-Olympic all-around gold medallist Simone Biles
Aug 11 (Reuters) - Following is a factbox on American gymnast Simone Biles, who won all-around gold at the Rio Olympics on Thursday.
Hometown: Spring, Texas
Born: March 14, 1997
Coach: Aimee Boorman
OLYMPICS
Gold- all-around (2016); team (2016)
WORLD MEDALS
Gold - all-around (2013, 2014, 2015); balance beam (2014, 2015), floor exercise (2013, 2014, 2015); team (2014, 2015)
Silver - vault (2013, 2014)
Bronze - balance beam (2013); vault (2015)
* Biles is the first woman since 1996 to win the Olympic all-around title as the reigning world champion.
* She has won 14 world championship medals, including 10 golds, which is the most for a female gymnast.
* She is the first woman to win three successive world all around titles and has yet to be beaten in the event at a global meet.
* Biles was the first African-American woman to become world all-around champion.
* In 2014, she became the first woman to win four golds at a single world championships since the Soviet Union's Ludmila Turicheva in 1974.
(Information provided by USA Gymnastics) (Reporting by Pritha Sarkar and Alexandra Ulmer; Editing by Frank Pingue)
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