Simone Biles 60.500

Pretty much as most predicted.

Simone Biles 60.500
Kyla Ross 59.750
Brenna Dowell 58.450
Peyton Ernst 57.450
Maggie Nichols 56.950
Abigail Milliet 56.850
Ariana Guerra 56.550
Madison Desch 56.400

Vault
1. McKayla Maroney, Long Beach, Calif., 15.500
2. Simone Biles, Spring, Texas, 15.400
3. Mykayla Skinner, Gilbert, Ariz., 14.850

Uneven bars
1. Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., 15.500
2. Madison Kocian, Dallas, Texas, 15.000
3. Simone Biles, Spring, Texas, 14.750

Balance beam
1. Simone Biles, Spring, Texas, 14.900
2. Madison Kocian, Dallas, Texas, 14.800
3. Kyla Ross, Aliso Viejo, Calif., 14.700

Floor exercise
1. Simone Biles, Spring, Texas, 15.050
2. McKayla Maroney, Long Beach, Calif., 14.850
3. Mykayla Skinner, Gilbert, Ariz., 14.750

results (PDF)

Simone Biles of Spring, Texas/Bannon’s Gymnastix, leads the senior women’s all-around standings after the first of two days of competition at the P&G Gymnastics Championships at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. …

Biles came out of the gates strong on the uneven bars, moving nimbly through an intricate piked Tkatchev to Pak salto combination to score 14.750. On the balance beam, Biles was solid again and stuck her full-twisting double back. She earned a 14.900. In rotation three, Biles got the crowd going on the floor where her tumbling nearly hung in the rafters. She executed a tucked double double, a double layout and tucked full-in for a 15.050. In the final rotation, Biles performed an Amanar vault to score 15.800. Biles posted the highest scores of the night on balance beam and floor exercise. …

2012 Olympic team champion McKayla Maroney of Long Beach, Calif./All Olympia, earned a 14.850 for her floor routine that included a double layout, two-and-a-half twist to punch front full, and a double Arabian. On vault, where she is the reigning World champion, she performed an Amanar, which received a 15.700. Maroney performed a Yurchenko half-on to layout front full second vault and scored 15.300, giving her the highest two-vault average of the competition, 15.500.

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Click PLAY or watch Simone’s Floor on YouTube. (15.050)

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