© John Cheng
INDIANAPOLIS – For the second year in a row, three-time
World all-around champion Simone Biles of Spring, Texas/World Champions
Centre, has been named an AAU Sullivan Award semi-finalist.
Online voting for the 86th AAU James E. Sullivan Award is open until March 14. Fans can vote once per day.
Click here to vote.
Biles is a three-time World all-around champion (2013-15), three-time
U.S. all-around champion (2013-15), three-time world floor champion
(2013-15), two-time world balance beam champion (2014-15) and a member
of the gold-medal-winning American teams at the 2014 and 2015 World
Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
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| Photo is courtesy of USA Gymnastics |
Biles became the first woman to win 10 career World gold medals, as well
as four gold medals at consecutive World Championships. She also
clinched a historic third straight World all-around title at the 2015
World Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain. Biles now has
14 World medals, tied for third all time and the most ever earned by a
U.S. gymnast, male or female. She also won her third consecutive U.S.
all-around title, becoming the first woman to accomplish the three-peat
since Kim Zmeskal. Biles has won every all-around competition she has
entered since the 2013 P&G Championships, USA Gymnastics’ national
championships, in August 2013.
Three gymnasts have previously won the Sullivan Award: Shawn Johnson (2008), Paul Hamm (2004) and Kurt Thomas (1979).
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