OlympicTalk · Oct 30, 2018
U.S. women’s gymnastics team wins world title by record margin
The Simone Biles-anchored U.S. women’s gymnastics team won the world championship in Doha on Tuesday by the largest margin under the 12-year-old scoring system.
Biles, Morgan Hurd, Riley McCusker, Grace McCallum and Kara Eaker combined for 171.629 points. The Americans beat silver medalist Russia by 8.766 points, crushing the previous record margin of victory of 6.693 set in 2014. It also beat the Olympic record of 8.209 set by the U.S. in Rio. China rallied past Brazil for bronze on the last rotation.
The records are under the Code of Points, which replaced the perfect-10 judging system in 2006.