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[[File:EUA levam ouro na ginástica artística feminina; Brasil fica em 8º lugar (28879955925).jpg|thumb|280px|The Final Five celebrating after winning the Women's Team All-Around at the 2016 Summer Olympics]]
[[File:EUA levam ouro na ginástica artística feminina; Brasil fica em 8º lugar (28879955925).jpg|thumb|280px|The Final Five celebrating after winning the Women's Team All-Around at the 2016 Summer Olympics]]
In the team final, Biles competed on all four apparatus, Raisman and Hernandez both competed on vault, balance beam, and floor exercise, and Kocian and Douglas competed on the uneven bars.<ref>{{cite web |title=USA wins team gold in women’s gymnastics at 2016 Olympic Games |url=https://usagym.org/usa-wins-team-gold-in-womens-gymnastics-at-2016-olympic-games/ |website=[[USA Gymnastics]] |access-date=May 29, 2024 |date=August 9, 2016}}</ref> The team scored 184.897, over eight points ahead of second-place Russia, and they had the highest total scores on each apparatus.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Barnas |first1=Jo-Ann |title=U.S.’s Final Five sends Karolyi off with final gold |url=https://usagym.org/u-s-s-final-five-sends-karolyi-off-with-final-gold/ |website=[[USA Gymnastics]] |access-date=May 28, 2024 |date=August 10, 2016}}</ref> This was the largest margin of victory in an Olympic women's gymnastics team final since [[Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's artistic team all-around|1960]] when the Soviet Union beat Czechoslovakia by nearly nine points.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Howard |first1=Johnette |title=They are the greatest! U.S. are best women's gymnastics team ever |url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/gymnastics/story/_/id/17259460/2016-rio-olympics-greatest-united-states-best-women-gymnastics-team-ever |website=[[ESPN]] |access-date=May 29, 2024 |date=August 9, 2016}}</ref> This was the United States' second consecutive Olympic team title and its third overall.<ref>{{cite web |title=U.S. women's gymnastics team wins gold at Rio Olympics |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-womens-gymnastics-team-wins-gold-at-rio-olympics/ |website=[[CBS News]] |access-date=May 3, 2024 |date=August 9, 2016}}</ref>
Biles, Raisman, and Hernandez each competed on vault, balance beam, and floor exercise. Kocian, Douglas, and Biles competed on uneven bars. The team scored 184.897, over eight points ahead of second place Russia. For each individual apparatus, the Final Five's combined scores were the highest.
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The Final Five receiving their gold medals

The Final Five was the United States women's team in artistic gymnastics that won the team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. It was the United States' third gold medal in the event and second at an Olympics hosted outside the United States. The five members of the team were Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian, and Aly Raisman, with MyKayla Skinner, Ragan Smith, and Ashton Locklear serving as the three alternates. After the team event, Biles won a gold medal in the individual all-around event, the vault, and on floor exercise and won a bronze on the balance beam, while Raisman won silver medals in the individual all-around, and on the floor exercise, where she was the defending champion, Hernandez won silver on the balance beam, and Kocian won a silver in the uneven bars. The previous team to medal in every event, including the team and individual all-around, was the Unified Team at the 1992 Games, and the only previous U.S. team to do so was at the 1984 Games.

Team background

Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas were both part of the gold medal-winning team, dubbed the Fierce Five,[1] at the 2012 London Olympics where Douglas won gold in the all-around and Raisman won gold on the floor event and bronze on the balance beam.[2][3]

Simone Biles became age-eligible for senior competitions in 2013,[4] and she won gold at the 2013 World Championships in the individual all-around and on floor exercise. She also won silver on the vault and bronze on the balance beam.[5] Biles and Madison Kocian were part of the 2014 World Championship gold medal-winning team.[6] Biles additionally won gold medals in the all-around, on the floor exercise, and on the balance beam, becoming the first American women to win four gold medals in a single World Championships.[7] Raisman and Douglas returned to training in 2014 and were re-added to the national team in November.[8]

Biles, Raisman, Douglas, and Kocian were all part of the 2015 World Championship gold medal-winning team.[9] Biles won gold in the all-around and Douglas won the silver.[10] Biles also won gold medals on the floor exercise and balance beam and won the bronze medal on the vault. With 10 gold medals total, Biles broke the record for most World Championships gold medals by a female gymnast.[11] Kocian won gold on the uneven bars in a historic four-way tie.[12]

Laurie Hernandez was the 2015 junior national all-around champion and became age-eligible for senior competitions in 2016.[13] She made her international debut at the 2016 City of Jesolo Trophy alongside Douglas and Raisman where the American team won the gold medal by over 13 points ahead of Brazil.[14] At the 2016 Pacific Rim Championships, Biles, Hernandez, and Raisman helped the American team win the gold medal, and they all finished in the top three in the all-around.[15]

Raisman won the all-around title at the 2016 U.S. Classic while Biles, Douglas, Hernandez, and Kocian did not compete on all four apparatuses.[16] Then at the National Championships, Biles won her fourth-straight national all-around title in addition to winning the vault, balance beam, and floor exercise titles. Raisman placed second, Hernandez placed third, Douglas placed fourth, and Kocian placed fifth in the all-around.[17]

Olympic Trials

Main article: 2016 United States Olympic trials (gymnastics)

The Olympic Trials for women's artistic gymnastics took place on Friday, July 8, and Sunday, July 10, 2016, at the SAP Center in San Jose, California.[18] Both nights of the competition were broadcast by NBC.[19]

Heading into the Olympic Trials, Biles, Douglas, Hernandez, and Raisman were considered "locks" for the Olympic team with the competition for the fifth spot being between the uneven bars standouts, Kocian and Ashton Locklear.[20][21] Biles, Hernandez, and Raisman finished first, second, and third, respectively, in the all-around competition and were all selected for the Olympic team.[22] Douglas fell off the balance beam both nights of the competition and finished seventh in the all-around.[23] The U.S. National Team Coordinator, Márta Károlyi, explained that Douglas was still selected for the Olympic team because of her strength on the uneven bars and her ability to improve during the nine-day training camp before the Olympics.[24] Kocian finished eighth in the all-around but beat Locklear to win the uneven bars, leading to her selection for the Olympic team.[25] Locklear, MyKayla Skinner, and Ragan Smith were selected as the three alternates.[22]

Olympic Trials results for the Final Five[26][27]
Gymnast Day Total
Simone Biles 1 16.000 14.950 15.200 15.700 61.850
2 16.200 14.900 14.750 15.550 61.400
Total 32.200 (1) 29.850 (=4) 29.950 (4) 31.250 (1) 123.250 (1)
Laurie Hernandez 1 15.150 14.900 15.500 15.300 60.850
2 15.150 14.750 15.700 14.700 60.300
Total 30.300 (4) 29.650 (7) 31.200 (1) 30.000 (3) 121.150 (2)
Aly Raisman 1 15.250 14.450 14.800 15.450 59.950
2 15.200 14.300 15.250 15.050 59.800
Total 30.450 (3) 28.750 (11) 30.050 (3) 30.500 (2) 119.750 (3)
Gabby Douglas 1 15.100 15.100 13.700 14.650 58.550
2 15.000 15.250 14.100 14.550 58.900
Total 30.100 (6) 30.350 (3) 27.800 (11) 29.200 (=6) 117.450 (7)
Madison Kocian 1 13.900 15.750 14.700 14.250 58.600
2 14.000 15.900 13.850 14.700 58.450
Total 27.900 (12) 31.650 (1) 28.550 (9) 28.950 (9) 117.050 (8)

Captain and nickname

Aly Raisman, the captain of the Fierce Five and the oldest member of the Final Five at age 22, was once again selected as team captain by her teammates.[28]

The team members chose the name Final Five before the Olympic Games, but it was not announced until the team had secured victory in the team event.[29] The name has two meanings: one being that at the upcoming 2020 Olympic Games, gymnastics teams would only be made up of four athletes[a] and the other being that it was the final gymnastics team to be formed under Márta Károlyi as national team coordinator of USA Gymnastics.[31]

2016 Summer Olympics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Qualifications

The United States qualified in first place with an overall score of 185.238, nearly 10 points ahead of second-place China.[32] Biles, Douglas, and Raisman competed on all four apparatuses. Hernandez competed on vault, balance beam, and floor exercise, and Kocian competed only on uneven bars.[33] For the individual all-around competition, Biles, Raisman, and Douglas qualified in first, second, and third place, respectively. Due to the rule allowing only the top two from each country to compete in a World or Olympic individual final, only Biles and Raisman advanced.[32]

Biles qualified first on the vault, balance beam, and floor exercise; Kocian qualified first on the uneven bars; Raisman qualified second on the floor exercise; Hernandez qualified second on the balance beam; Douglas qualified third on the uneven bars. Additionally, Douglas and Raisman both finished seventh on the balance beam and Hernandez finished fourth on floor exercise, but all failed to qualify for those finals due to the two-per-country rule.[34]

Qualification results for the Final Five at the 2016 Summer Olympics[35]
Gymnast Total
Score[b] Rank Score Rank Score Rank Score Rank Score Rank
Simone Biles 16.000/16.100
Avg: 16.050		 1 15.000 14 15.633 1 15.733 1 62.366 1
Gabby Douglas 15.166 15.766 3 14.833 =7 14.366 9 60.131 3
Laurie Hernandez 15.200 15.366 2 14.800 4
Madison Kocian 15.866 1
Aly Raisman 15.766 14.733 22 14.833 =7 15.275 2 60.607 2
 United States 46.966 1 46.632 2 45.832 1 45.808 1 185.238 1

Team final

The Final Five celebrating after winning the Women's Team All-Around at the 2016 Summer Olympics

In the team final, Biles competed on all four apparatus, Raisman and Hernandez both competed on vault, balance beam, and floor exercise, and Kocian and Douglas competed on the uneven bars.[36] The team scored 184.897, over eight points ahead of second-place Russia, and they had the highest total scores on each apparatus.[37] This was the largest margin of victory in an Olympic women's gymnastics team final since 1960 when the Soviet Union beat Czechoslovakia by nearly nine points.[38] This was the United States' second consecutive Olympic team title and its third overall.[39]

Team final results for the Final Five at the 2016 Summer Olympics[40]
Gymnast Total
Simone Biles 15.933 14.800 15.300 15.800 61.833
Gabby Douglas 15.766 15.766
Laurie Hernandez 15.100 15.233 14.833 45.166
Madison Kocian 15.933 15.933
Aly Raisman 15.833 15.000 15.366 46.199
 United States 46.866 (1) 46.499 (1) 45.533 (1) 45.999 (1) 184.897 (1)

Individual events

Biles (left) and Raisman (right) celebrating after the all-around final
Individual all-around final for the Final Five at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Gymnast Total
Simone Biles 15.866 14.966 15.433 15.933 62.198
Aly Raisman 15.633 14.166 14.866 15.433 60.098

In the individual all-around, Biles and Raisman each performed four clean routines, with Biles scoring the highest score on all but the uneven bars, as well as being the only gymnast that day to score above 15 on the balance beam. Biles took the gold medal, 2.1 points ahead of Raisman, who took the silver medal. With this, Biles and Raisman became the second pair of American gymnasts to go 1-2 in the individual all-around in the Olympics, after Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson took gold and silver respectively in 2008 in Beijing.

Biles competing in the balance beam final
Event finals for the Final Five at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Gymnast
Simone Biles 15.966 14.733 15.966
Gabby Douglas 15.066
Laurie Hernandez 15.333
Madison Kocian 15.833
Aly Raisman 15.500

In the vault final, Biles, who was favored to win despite never winning a world title on the apparatus, won the gold medal, becoming the first American gymnast to win the vault title at an Olympic Games.

After qualifying in 1st, Kocian performed cleanly and won the silver medal on uneven bars, finishing behind Russian gymnast and reigning Olympic uneven bars champion Aliya Mustafina. Douglas, who qualified in 3rd behind Kocian and Mustafina, respectively, made a mistake on one of her pirouettes and placed seventh.

In the balance beam final, Hernandez won the silver medal, finishing behind the Netherlands' Sanne Wevers. Biles suffered a shocking mishap when she put her hands on the beam after a balance check on her front tuck. Despite the mistake, her score was high enough to win her the bronze medal.

Copying the results of the individual all-around, Biles and Raisman won gold and silver respectively in the floor exercise event final, competing the two highest difficulty routines in the competition.

Biles was chosen by Team USA to be the flag bearer for the closing ceremonies. She was the first American female gymnast to be given the honor.[41]

Post-Olympics

Laurie Hernandez competed on and won season 23 of Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with Valentin Chmerkovskiy.[42]

Simone Biles competed on season 24 of Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with Sasha Farber. They finished fourth.[43] Farber later helped choreograph a floor exercise routine that Biles debuted in the 2021 U.S. Classic.

Madison Kocian went on to compete at the collegiate level for the UCLA Bruins.[44] She, along with Fierce Five member Kyla Ross, made history by becoming the first Olympic gold medalists to compete in NCAA gymnastics[45] in a team managed and then later assistant coached by another Fierce Five member, Jordyn Wieber.

After the Olympics, it came to light that all five of the Final Five, plus at least one of the three alternates, had been abused sexually, verbally, and/or emotionally while training in gymnastics.[46] The prevalence of abuse in gymnastics was widely discussed in the media after the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal became public.

Simone Biles
Gabby Douglas
Laurie Hernandez
Madison Kocian
Aly Raisman
The Final Five

See also

  • Magnificent Seven, the U.S. 1996 Summer Olympics women's artistic gymnastics team
  • Fierce Five, the U.S. 2012 Summer Olympics women's artistic gymnastics team

Notes

  1. ^ Olympic gymnastics team sizes were changed back to five for 2024 Olympic Games.[30]
  2. ^ Gymnasts who wanted to qualify for the vault final performed a second vault, with the average of the two counting for event final qualification. Only the first vault counted for individual and team all-around qualification.

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