Simone Biles makes history by winning her 24th world championship medal -- the most for any gymnast
Source: Washington Post
STUTTGART, Germany -- Simone Biles broke the record for most world medals by any gymnast, male or female, by winning gold on the balance beam Sunday at the 2019 World Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart.
With nearly flawless execution of an extremely difficult routine, Biles claimed her 24th world medal that broke a tie with Vitaly Scherbo of Belarus, who set the long-standing mark of 23 in the 1990s. Biles scored a whopping 15.066 points on the afternoon's most technically demanding routine to win gold. China's Liu Tingting (14.433) and Li Shijia (14.300) took silver and bronze, respectively. Fellow American Kara Eaker, 16, of Grain Valley, Mo., placed fourth.
Biles, 22, the reigning Olympic and five-time world champion in the prestigious all-around competition, is expected to extend her world-record mark later Sunday when she competes on floor exercise, the final event in what is likely her final world championships.
With her parents, Nellie and Ron, looking on from the packed stands, the 4-feet-8 Biles exuded joy and effortlessness in flipping, spinning and leaping up and down the four-inch wide balance beam. She projected wonderful, feel-good images for international broadcasters. The only pity was that Biles' fluency on the beam masks the staggering rigor of her skills and the intense training that makes them possible.
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Congrats!!!!
Original article and headline -
By Washington Post Staff
Oct. 13, 2019 at 8:26 a.m. EDT
Biles won gold in the balance beam on Sunday in Stuttgart, Germany, to surpass the mark set in the 1990s by Vitaly Scherbo of Belarus. Biles, 22, has indicated this will be her final appearance at the world championships.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.
Here is her record-setting performance -
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Some are yearly and some are biennially (even years). 
(my sisters follow them)
Ahh... okay. They're referring to her wins in multiple individual events (vault, uneven bars, balance beam, floor, etc) at each of the five or six world championship gatherings. Got it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Biles#Competitive_history
She's quite a talent, isn't she? And that smile!! OMG! 
And I know last night when she reached #23, they said she had 3 more to go at that point... so with this latest, she would have 2 more (if they haven't happened already) to potentially pad her historic record!
And as a note, at the tender age of 22, she is considered to be at the "older" end of the range of competitive gymnasts so this feat is even more remarkable... But she has the advantage of experience, discipline, and maturity to seamlessly power through the traditional moves in order to focus on tackling the more complex ones (and even create her own unique moves)!
No question about it.
