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Simone Biles and Suni Lee will try to do something Thursday at the Paris Olympics that hasn’t been done in more than 50 years.
PARIS, France — Fresh off their gold medal win in the team final, Simone Biles and Suni Lee could make history in the women’s gymnastics all-around final on Thursday.
Women’s gymnastics 2024 all-around final
If either Biles or Lee wins on Thursday, they would be the first woman to earn a second Summer Games all-around gold in 56 years.
Biles would become the oldest women’s all-around champion since 1952. Maria Gorokhovskaya was 30 when she won the gold at the 1952 Helsinki Games.
An American has stood atop the podium in the women’s gymnastics all-around final for the past five Olympics.
Carly Patterson won at the 2004 Athens Games, Nastia Liukin at the 2008 Beijing Games, Gabby Douglas at the 2012 London Games, Biles at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and Lee at the Tokyo Games three years ago.
Thursday’s event marks the first all-around final that includes multiple Olympic champions in Lee and Biles.
Olympic women’s gymnastics all-around gold medal winners
- 2020 Tokyo – Suni Lee
- 2016 Rio – Simone Biles
- 2012 London – Gabby Douglas
- 2008 Beijing – Nastia Liukin
- 2004 Athens – Carly Patterson
- 2000 Sydney – Simona Amânar
- 1996 Atlanta – Lilia Podkopayeva
- 1992 Barcelona – Tatiana Gutsu
- 1988 Seoul – Yelena Shushunova
- 1984 Los Angeles – Mary Lou Retton
- 1980 Moscow – Yelena Davydova
- 1976 Montreal – Nadia Comăneci
- 1972 Munich – Ludmilla Tourischeva
- 1968 Mexico City – Věra Čáslavská
- 1964 Tokyo – Věra Čáslavská
- 1960 Rome – Larisa Latynina
- 1956 Melbourne – Larisa Latynina
- 1952 Helsinki – Maria Gorokhovskaya
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