what type of gymnastics is simone biles

Simone Biles competes in artistic gymnastics, the Olympic discipline that includes vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise.

What type of gymnastics she does

• Simone Biles is officially described as an American artistic gymnast, not rhythmic or trampoline.

• Artistic gymnastics is the traditional Olympic format most people think of when they see women competing on vault, bars, beam, and floor.

Events Simone Biles competes on

• She has competed and won major titles in all four women’s artistic events: vault, uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise.

• Biles is one of the few female gymnasts to win world or Olympic medals on every apparatus in women’s artistic gymnastics.

Why people ask this question

• Gymnastics has multiple disciplines (artistic, rhythmic, trampoline, acrobatic), and Simone Biles is so dominant that people sometimes assume she does “all types.”

• Her extremely difficult tumbling and vaulting have also helped redefine the power and complexity of women’s artistic gymnastics, which adds to the confusion.

TL;DR: Simone Biles is an artistic gymnast, not rhythmic or trampoline.