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Also Known As vault

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The most-decorated American gymnast
Simone Biles
American gymnast
Olympic gymnast Věra Čáslavská
Věra Čáslavská
Czech gymnast
Belarusian gymnast Vitaly Scherbo
Vitaly Scherbo
Belarusian athlete
Shilese Jones
Shilese Jones
American gymnast
Suni Lee on the balance beam at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Suni Lee
American gymnast
Nikolai Andrianov
Nikolai Andrianov
Soviet gymnast
Larisa Latynina at the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games
Larisa Latynina
Soviet athlete
Gymnastics champion Viktor Chukarin
Viktor Chukarin
Soviet athlete

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