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American Simone Biles Becomes First Gymnast To win 13 World Titles

The 21-year-old broke the all-time record set by Belarusian male gymnast Vitaly Scherbo in 1996, a year before Biles was born.

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American Simone Biles Becomes First Gymnast To win 13 World Titles
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American Simone Biles has become the first-ever gymnast to win 13 world titles after capturing the individual vault gold medal at the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Doha on Friday.

The 21-year-old broke the all-time record set by Belarusian male gymnast Vitaly Scherbo in 1996, a year before Biles was born.

It was Biles' third gold medal of the week so far in Doha and she is halfway to a possible sweep of six gold medals at these championships.

This was also her 17th world championship medal overall, which means she is just three shy of the all-time record of 20, held by Russia's Svetlana Khorkina.

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Favourite to take gold in the event, she received a mark of 15.366, well ahead of second-placed Shallon Olsen from Canada, who finished on 14.516. Bronze went to Mexico's Alexa Moreno, with 43-year-old Oksana Chusovitina in fourth.

Biles has another chance of a gold medal later on Friday in the uneven bars event.

Earlier, all-around gold medal winner Artur Dalaloyan won the men's floor exercise gold medal.

(AFP)

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