Simone Biles leads U.S. women to seventh consecutive team title at gymnastics world championships

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Led by Simone Biles, the U.S. ladies received a seventh consecutive staff title on the gymnastics world championships on Wednesday night time.

The American staff of Biles, Shilese Jones, Skye Blakely and Leanne Wong mixed for a complete of 167.729 factors to edge Brazil and France.

The U.S. staff received by a margin of two.199 factors as the ultimate proved to be a more in-depth contest than anticipated after the People put up a dominant efficiency in qualifying.

The U.S. ladies have received gold within the staff occasion at each world championship that included a staff competitors since 2011. Their victory in Antwerp broke a tie with the Chinese language males and made Biles essentially the most adorned feminine gymnast in historical past.

Biles now has 26 world championship medals, 20 of them gold, to go together with her seven Olympic medals, together with the 2016 Olympic title. Her 33 mixed medals on the sport’s two largest occasions are yet another than what Larisa Latynina of the Soviet Union achieved.

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