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Simone Biles breaks gymnastics worlds medals record, gets 5 golds this week

STUTTGART, Germany — Simone Biles will finish what she is 99 percent sure is her final world championships with the most medals in history.

Biles earned a record-breaking 24th and 25th medals, winning the balance beam and floor exercise on the last day of the meet on Sunday. She earned five gold medals alone at these worlds, believed to be the most by one gymnast since Soviets Larisa Latynina and Boris Shakhlin in 1958 (when Latynina was pregnant).

Biles hit a clean beam routine and scored 15.066 points, distancing defending champion Liu Tingting of China by .