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.