American Simone Biles will compete from the 30th in Antwerp (Belgium) for the sixth artistic gymnastics world championships, having reached this Tuesday best value at Katy selective camp (Texas) and thus secured a spot on his state team.

Despite falling on the uneven bars and on the vault and leaving the mat on the floor, her workouts allowed her to bulk up 55.70 pointsmore than any other candidate, ahead 55.30 from Shilese Jones.

The four-time Olympic champion, considered the best specialist of all time, retired at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to mental health problems and did not return to competition until last August.

After winning the US Classic, he declared his intention to attend the world championships and the Paris Olympics, for which the American team had qualified. The remaining five team members will be announced when selective camp concludes this Wednesday.

Biles will compete in Antwerp in search of it sixth absolute world title. The first was achieved in the city of Belgium in 2013, followed by Nanning (China) 2014, Glasgow (England) 2015, Doha 2018 and Stuttgart (Germany) 2019. The total was between individual and team events, added Biles. 19 gold, three silver and three world bronze.

Defending the world title is Rebeca Andrade from Brazil, last year’s winner in Liverpool (England) in the absence of the American. The match in Antwerp will be the fourth match between the two in the top-level tournament.

At the 2016 Rio Olympics, where Biles won gold, Andrade finished eleventh. The Brazilian’s first world championships took place in 2018, where he only competed in the team competition. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Andrade (by then she had already undergone three operations due to torn ligaments in her right knee) was declared Olympic runner-up, while Biles did not participate in the individual competition due to the aforementioned health problems.