Everything to Know About Gymnastics All-around Gold Medalist Sunisa Lee

The U.S.’ Sunisa Lee is an Olympic gold medal winner.
On Thursday, Lee completed with a complete rating of 57.433 in the personal all-all-around, positioning her previously mentioned her opponents to get paid the gold. Subsequent at the rear of her was Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade and Russian Olympic Committee’s Angelina Melnikova, who earned the silver and bronze medals, respectively.
The eighteen-12 months-old is the fifth consecutive American to earn the all-all-around title, next Carly Patterson in 2004, Nastia Liukin in 2008, Gabby Douglas in 2012 and Simone Biles in 2016. Although Biles returned for her second Olympics this 12 months to defend her titles from Rio 2016, she cheered her teammate on from the stands this time all-around following withdrawing from both the workforce and personal all-all-around gatherings because of to mental overall health.
Andrade took portion in the function as an personal competitor, since her workforce failed to qualify following four consecutive Olympic appearances. She designed background on Thursday as her silver medal is the 1st Olympic medal received by a feminine Brazilian artistic gymnast.
Lee, who goes by the nickname Suni, is also the 1st Hmong American to contend in the Olympics as a gymnast, and the 1st to earn a gold medal in the Olympics.
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