Simone Biles Age 2026: How Old Is Simone Biles Today?

By Celebamerica Editorial Staff | Last updated: November 10, 2026

Simone Biles is 29 years old in 2026. She was born on March 14, 1997, in Columbus, Ohio, which means she turns 30 on March 14, 2027. At 29, she is the most decorated gymnast in history — 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals — and she is still deciding whether to chase one more Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028, when she would be 31.

That number matters more in gymnastics than in almost any other sport. Most female gymnasts peak in their teens and retire before 25. Biles won her first world all-around title at 16, her first Olympic gold at 19, and then — after a two-year break, a frightening bout of the twisties in Tokyo, and a comeback many thought was impossible — she won the Olympic all-around again at 27 in Paris, becoming the oldest woman to win that title in more than seven decades. Her age is not a footnote to her story. It is the story: a gymnast who refused to let the sport’s clock decide when she was done.

This page answers every version of the question people actually type into Google: how old Simone Biles is right now, how old she was at each Olympics, how her age compares with other gymnasts and other sporting greats, what her height has to do with it, and whether 31 is too old for Los Angeles 2028. Along the way it covers the money that her longevity built — an estimated net worth of $20 million to $25 million, anchored at $25 million by Celebrity Net Worth and Parade — because in Biles’ case, age and earnings are tied together: the longer she stayed at the top, the bigger the endorsement fortune grew.

Quick Facts: Simone Biles in 2026

How Old Is Simone Biles Right Now?

Simone Biles is 29 years and about eight months old as of November 2026. Her 29th birthday fell on March 14, 2026 — a date that drew a small wave of coverage, with outlets from astrology blogs to sports wires marking the day — and her 30th birthday arrives on March 14, 2027. If you are doing the maths yourself: 2026 minus 1997 is 29, and because her birthday in March has already passed this year, there is nothing to subtract. She is 29, full stop, until next March.

The confusion online usually comes from older articles. Search results from 2024 still describe her as 27, because that was her age at the Paris Olympics. Pages written in 2023 call her 26. A few low-quality profiles still list her as 28, having been written between March 2025 and March 2026 and never updated. Any page that says 27 or 28 in late 2026 is simply stale. Her birth date has never been in dispute: March 14, 1997, in Columbus, Ohio, is listed identically by Olympics.com, Team USA, Britannica, and Wikipedia.

Her husband’s age is a useful cross-check for anyone keeping the couple’s timeline straight. Jonathan Owens, the NFL safety she married in 2023, was born on July 22, 1995, making him 31 in 2026 — about a year and eight months older than Biles. Parade’s October 2026 interview with Biles described the pair exactly that way: Owens the 31-year-old safety, Biles the 29-year-old Olympian cheering him on from the stands.

What makes 29 such a talking point is that gymnastics treats age differently from other sports. In football or basketball, 29 is a prime year. In women’s gymnastics, where the average Olympic team member is often still a teenager, 29 is nearly unheard of. Biles is older than most of the coaches’ daughters she competes against — and still beating them. The rest of this article traces how she got here, year by year, and what her age means for the one question hanging over her career: Los Angeles 2028.

Simone Biles Age at Every Major Milestone

One table tells the story of Biles’ career better than any paragraph: she has been winning at the highest level for 13 years, across three Olympic cycles, and her age at each landmark shows a career with no precedent in the modern sport.

Two things stand out in that table. First, the sheer span: 11 years between her first world title at 16 and her Paris all-around gold at 27. Second, the gap in the middle. Biles took nearly two years away from the sport after Tokyo, from late 2021 to mid-2023, and came back better. Most gymnasts who step away for that long at that age do not return at all. She returned and won another world title within months.

Early Life: From Foster Care in Ohio to the Gym

Simone Arianne Biles was born on March 14, 1997, in Columbus, Ohio, the third of four children. Her early years were unstable in ways she has spoken about openly as an adult. Her birth mother struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, and when Biles was three years old she and her younger sister Adria went into foster care. They were later adopted by their maternal grandfather, Ron Biles, and his wife Nellie, who raised them in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston. Biles has always been direct about that beginning: she calls Ron and Nellie her parents, and she credits the stability they gave her with everything that followed.

Gymnastics entered her life by accident. At six, on a daycare field trip to a gym in Spring, she started copying the gymnasts on the equipment — and the coaches noticed a six-year-old with unusual power and body control. Her parents enrolled her in classes, and within a few years she was training seriously. By 2011, at 14, she was competing as a junior elite. At 15 she left public school for homeschooling so she could train more hours, a decision that tells you how quickly the sport had taken over her life.

The early-teen years were not a straight line. Biles was powerful but raw, and her first years on the national scene mixed flashes of brilliance with falls and inconsistency. She missed selection for some early teams. What set her apart, even then, was not polish but sheer athletic ceiling: she could do skills other gymnasts could not even attempt, and she learned new ones at a speed that startled her coaches. By the time she turned senior at 16 in 2013, the raw talent had met enough discipline to become dangerous.

Her family story matters to the age question for a simple reason: Biles did not come up through the conveyor belt that produces most elite gymnasts. She started at six, which is late by elite standards, and she spent her early childhood outside the sport entirely. The late start is part of why her body and her mind have lasted so long — she arrived at the top with fewer miles on her than gymnasts who had been training 30 hours a week since they were four.

The Rise: Teenage Star to the Most Decorated Gymnast Ever

Biles announced herself in 2013, at 16, by winning the world all-around title in Antwerp in her first year as a senior. She defended it in 2014 in Nanning, won it again in 2015 in Glasgow, and by the time she arrived at the Rio Olympics in 2016, at 19, she was the overwhelming favourite. Rio delivered on the hype: team gold, all-around gold, vault gold, floor gold, and a bronze on beam — the only event where a wobble cost her. Four golds at a single Games put her in company with the legends of the sport, and she was still a teenager.

The numbers from the years that followed are almost hard to believe. Between 2013 and 2019 she won five world all-around titles, a record. She collected 25 world medals by 2019, passing the previous record, and she now holds 30 — 23 of them gold. Add 11 Olympic medals and her combined haul is 41 major championship medals, 30 of them gold. No gymnast, male or female, has ever won more. Five skills are named after her in the sport’s Code of Points — two on vault, one beam dismount, two on floor — because she was the first to perform them in competition. The Biles II on vault, a Yurchenko double pike, is so difficult that no other woman has ever attempted it in competition.

She took 2017 off after Rio, then returned in 2018 to win a fourth world all-around title in Doha at 21, and a fifth in Stuttgart in 2019 at 22. Through all of it, her dominance rested on difficulty: her routines start from a higher base score than her rivals’, which means she can afford a small mistake and still win. That difficulty gap is the physical foundation of her longevity. She does not need to be perfect. She needs to be close to perfect, and at 29 she still is.

For the full story of how that career unfolded — the foster-care beginning, the twisties, the Paris comeback, and the fortune it built — our sister site’s biography of her is a strong companion read: Simone Biles’ biography on Guide Net Worth covers the same career from the life-story angle, with its own reporting on the $25 million fortune. What follows here stays on the age question: how a gymnast who should have been finished years ago is still, at 29, the standard everyone else is measured against.

Why 29 Is Remarkable in Gymnastics

To understand why 29 turns heads, you have to understand the sport’s calendar. Women’s artistic gymnastics rewards a combination — extreme flexibility, explosive power, light body weight, and fearlessness — that peaks early. The average age of the US women’s Olympic gymnastics team has hovered in the late teens for decades. The 2016 Rio team, Biles’ first, had an average age under 20. The 2024 Paris team was nicknamed the “Golden Girls” partly because it was older than usual, and it was still built around a 27-year-old Biles as its anchor.

The reasons are physical and human. Gymnastics punishes joints: ankles, knees, wrists, and the lower back absorb enormous impact on every landing, and the load adds up year after year. It also punishes the mind: the sport asks athletes to hurl themselves through the air, blind, and trust that their body knows where the floor is. That trust — the willingness to throw the hardest skills — tends to fade with age and with injury. The twisties, the terrifying loss of spatial awareness Biles suffered in Tokyo, are the extreme version of what happens when the mind-body connection frays. Most gymnasts retire when the fear starts to outweigh the thrill. Biles went through the worst version of it at 24 and came back to win the all-around at 27.

There are exceptions that prove the rule. Oksana Chusovitina of Uzbekistan competed internationally into her forties, appearing at eight Olympic Games, but she was a vault specialist — one event, not four — and she never won an all-around title at that age. Biles is doing all four events at the highest difficulty in the sport. That combination — all-around excellence at 29 — has no precedent.

Her height helps explain part of it. At 4 feet 8 inches, Biles has a low centre of gravity and a compact, powerful build that suits tumbling: shorter levers rotate faster in the air, and her power-to-weight ratio is extraordinary. Her stature has been a talking point since she was a teenager, and it is one reason the age question and the height question travel together.

Longevity like this is rare across all sports, not just gymnastics. Swimmers tend to be done by their early thirties: Michael Phelps won his last Olympic gold at 31 in Rio, then retired for good. Tennis players last longer — Serena Williams won her last Grand Slam singles title at 35 — but tennis does not ask its athletes to land double-twisting double somersaults on a four-inch beam. Biles’ age record sits in that company: a champion still winning in a sport that is supposed to have moved on from her years ago.

Paris 2024: The Comeback at 27

The Paris Olympics were the hinge of Biles’ career, and her age was the frame around every story written about them. She arrived in Paris at 27, three years after Tokyo, where she had withdrawn from most events with the twisties and left with a single bronze on beam. The comeback had begun in the summer of 2023, when she returned to competition at the US Classic at 26 and won the all-around, then added a sixth world title in Antwerp that October. Paris was the test of whether that comeback was real.

It was. Biles won team gold with the United States, then the individual all-around gold on August 1, 2024, at 27 years and four months old — the oldest woman to win the Olympic all-around in more than 70 years. She added vault gold, her signature event, and a silver on floor. Four medals in Paris, three of them gold, took her Olympic total to 11 and made her the most decorated US gymnast in Olympic history. She joked afterwards about feeling old, telling reporters she was “getting really old” at 27, and the line travelled everywhere because it captured the absurdity of the situation: the oldest all-around champion in living memory, still the best in the world.

The physical toll was visible too. Biles competed in Paris with a calf injury she picked up during qualifying, strapping the leg and managing it through the week. She also carried the weight of being the face of the Games — the athlete every camera followed. The comeback story, the injury, and the age combined into the defining performance of her career, and arguably of the Paris Games themselves.

Paris also reset the money. Forbes estimated her 2024 earnings at $11.2 million, including $11 million from endorsements, making her the tenth-highest-paid female athlete in the world that year. The Paris golds were the commercial engine: sponsors want winners, and a 27-year-old winner with a comeback story is worth more than a 19-year-old winner with no story at all. Her age, in other words, became an asset — the very thing that made her remarkable also made her marketable.

The Money Behind the Medals: Endorsements and Earnings

An age article has to answer the money question, because it is the question most readers ask next: what is a 29-year-old with 11 Olympic medals worth? The honest answer is a range. Celebrity Net Worth puts Simone Biles’ net worth at $25 million, and Parade’s 2026 reporting agrees at $25 million. Other outlets land lower — some 2026 profiles estimate around $20 million — and one modelling site, Grizzly Bulls, ranges its scenarios from $22 million to $55 million while calling $35 million its base case. Our anchor is $25 million, with a published range of $20 million to $25 million. Biles has never disclosed her finances, so every figure is an estimate, and any site that states a single number without saying so is overselling its certainty.

What is not in doubt is where the money comes from. Gymnastics pays almost nothing in prize money: Parade calculated her entire career haul from Olympic bonuses at roughly $147,500. The fortune is endorsements. Celebrity Net Worth’s reporting puts her earnings at $10.1 million in 2021, including $10 million from endorsements; $10 million in 2022; $7.1 million in 2023, including $7 million from sponsorships; and $11.2 million in 2024, including $11 million from endorsements and $200,000 from gymnastics. Across those four years she grossed an estimated $38.4 million. Forbes’ own estimates match the pattern: at least $5 million a year in endorsements as far back as 2021, rising to $11 million in the Paris year.

The sponsor roster explains the scale. Biles signed with Nike in 2015, at 18, and stayed until April 2021, when she made the headline switch to Athleta, the Gap-owned women’s activewear brand, in a deal that included her own signature collection — a far more valuable arrangement than a standard apparel contract. Around it she built one of the most stable endorsement portfolios in sport: Visa, United Airlines, GK Elite (her leotard partner), Uber Eats, MasterClass, Powerade, and SK-II. In 2024 she added a multi-year deal with haircare brand K18. In February 2026 she became Mandarin Oriental’s first Global Wellness Ambassador, and in September 2026 she partnered with Arcutis Biotherapeutics on a skin-health campaign. Sponsors keep signing her at 29 for the same reason audiences keep watching: she is still winning, and her story keeps getting better.

Touring adds a second income stream that most gymnasts never get. The Gold Over America Tour, which Biles headlined after Tokyo, grossed $19.3 million in 2021 according to Billboard. Media work — a MasterClass, book projects, television appearances — adds more. And the Paris comeback, by extending her career by three years, added millions in endorsement value that would not have existed if she had retired at 24 after Tokyo.

One warning about the numbers: endorsement earnings are not net worth. The $38.4 million across four years is gross income before agents, taxes, training costs, and living expenses. The $25 million net worth estimate is what Celebrity Net Worth believes she has kept and grown, including property. Treat the two figures as different things, because they are.

Los Angeles 2028: Will She Compete at 31?

This is the question that keeps “Simone Biles age” in the search results. If Biles competes in Los Angeles in July 2028, she will be 31 years and four months old — an age at which no woman has ever won the Olympic all-around, and an age at which no woman has even contested it in the modern era. As of November 2026, she has not committed either way.

The signals point in both directions. On the one hand, she is back in the gym. EssentiallySports reported in October 2026 that Biles had returned to training and was exploring a Los Angeles return, while stressing that she was determined to make the decision on her own terms. Competing at a home Olympics, in front of an American crowd, is the kind of thing athletes find hard to turn down — she said as much herself on Good Morning America. The 2028 Games are also, commercially, the biggest stage of her life: a home Olympics would be worth far more in endorsements than any competition abroad.

On the other hand, everything in her life is pulling the other way. In October 2026 she told the Associated Press that she was “getting to the age of 30” and thinking seriously about starting a family, saying openly that the conversation had shifted to her reproductive cycle and what comes next. She and Owens have spoken about wanting children. She has also built a life beyond competition — a restaurant, a wellness ambassadorship, a home she spent five years building — that does not need another Olympic cycle. And she has been clear that the decision is hers alone, not the sport’s and not the public’s.

The honest answer, as of November 2026, is that nobody knows, including — by her own account — Biles herself. What we can say is what 31 would mean. She would be four years older than she was in Paris, in a sport where four years is a lifetime. She would need to keep her difficulty while managing a body with more miles on it. And she would be doing it with nothing left to prove: she is already the most decorated gymnast who ever lived. If she goes, it will be because she wants to, not because she needs to — and that, for an athlete who has spent her whole life being told what her age means, would be the most fitting ending of all.

Personal Life: Marriage, Family and Life Off the Mat

Biles married NFL safety Jonathan Owens in 2023, in a courthouse ceremony in April followed by a larger celebration in Cabo San Lucas in May. Owens, who was born in July 1995 and is 31 in 2026, has played for the Houston Texans, Green Bay Packers, and Chicago Bears. The couple met on the dating app Raya in 2020, and their relationship has been unusually public for two athletes in different sports: Biles is a fixture at Owens’ games, and Parade’s October 2026 interview with her was built around exactly that — her game-day ritual of a kiss and a handshake before he takes the field, and her partnership with SodaStream, the brand behind the interview.

They have no children as of November 2026, and Biles has spoken candidly about the timing. Her October 2026 comments to the Associated Press — that turning 30 has brought questions about starting a family into focus — were widely reported, and they are the clearest public signal that family planning is part of the LA 2028 decision. She has also spoken about the health scare she revealed in June 2026, when she said she had been briefly hospitalised, without giving details. She has not linked the two publicly, and neither do we.

Off the mat, 2026 has been a year of building. In May 2026 Biles opened Taste of Gold, a restaurant in Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, marking her first move into hospitality. In September 2026 she and Owens listed their previous home in Spring, Texas — a four-bedroom, 3,998-square-foot house — for roughly $1.2 million, with some reports putting the asking price at $1.275 million. It went under contract within five days and closed on October 15, 2026, according to Celebrity Net Worth’s reporting. The sale followed the completion of the lakeside dream home the couple spent five years building, the property Biles has described as the place where she intends to put down roots.

She remains close to her family, above all to Ron and Nellie Biles, who adopted her and her sister Adria when Simone was three. Her younger sister Adria, also a former gymnast, is a regular presence at her competitions. Biles has used her platform for causes tied to her own story — mental health in sport, support for survivors of abuse in gymnastics, and adoption and foster-care advocacy — and the Presidential Medal of Freedom she received in 2022, at 25, was the youngest ever given to a living recipient.

Height, Fitness and the Body That Defies Age

Simone Biles is 4 feet 8 inches tall (142 cm), a figure listed identically by Team USA, Britannica, and Wikipedia. Olympedia lists 143 cm, a one-centimetre difference that changes nothing. She is about four inches shorter than the average female gymnast and about seven inches shorter than the average American woman, and her height is not a limitation in her sport — it is one of her advantages.

The physics are straightforward. A shorter gymnast rotates faster in the air, which is what makes Biles’ tumbling possible: the triple-twisting double somersaults and the Yurchenko double pike demand rotation speed that taller gymnasts struggle to generate. Her low centre of gravity also helps on beam, the four-inch-wide apparatus where balance is everything. Coaches have said for years that her build — compact, enormously powerful for her size — is close to ideal for the sport’s hardest skills.

Height also interacts with age in her favour. Shorter levers mean less torque on joints during landings, and her training has always emphasised strength work that protects the body. She works with the Landis at the World Champions Centre, the gym her family built in Spring, Texas, where her programme is built around her rather than the other way around. At 29 she trains smarter than she did at 19: fewer repetitions, more recovery, and a willingness to skip skills that are not worth the risk.

None of that makes her immune to wear. She managed a calf injury through the Paris Games, and the twisties remain the sport’s starkest reminder that the mind can fail even when the body holds up. Her fitness at 29 is a story of management, not magic: careful load, elite coaching, and a body type that was built for this sport in the first place. Among her peers on this site, Noah Lyles’ height profile shows the other end of the scale — a sprinter whose 5-foot-11 frame is built for speed in a straight line, not rotation in the air.

Simone Biles vs. Other Greats: Age and Longevity

Biles’ age record is easiest to appreciate next to other champions who kept winning past the age their sport expected them to stop.

The comparison with Phelps is the closest in spirit. Michael Phelps was 31 when he closed his career in Rio with five gold medals, and the swimming world treated that as the end of an era — a great champion leaving on his own terms. Biles was 29 when she won in Paris, and the gymnastics world treated it as a shock that she was there at all. The difference is the sport: swimming lets a 31-year-old win on technique and endurance; gymnastics asks a 29-year-old to do things no human body was designed to do, and to do them better than teenagers.

The Durant comparison cuts the other way. Kevin Durant, 38 in 2026, is still playing in the NBA, and nobody writes “how old is Kevin Durant” as though the number itself were the story. In team sports, age is a footnote. In gymnastics, it is the headline. That is the gap Biles has closed: she made 27, and now 29, look like a gymnast’s prime rather than its epilogue.

And the Chusovitina comparison is the one Biles herself would probably reject. Chusovitina’s eight Olympics are a marvel of persistence, but she was a specialist. Biles is an all-around champion. Winning one event at 46 is extraordinary; winning all four at 27 is, by the record books, without precedent — and if she wins anything at 31 in Los Angeles, the record books will need a new chapter.

Frequently Asked Questions About Simone Biles Age

Sources and How We Estimated

How we estimated: Simone Biles has never disclosed her finances, so her net worth is an estimate, not a fact. We anchor it at $25 million, the figure published by Celebrity Net Worth and by Parade in 2026, and we report the published range of $20 million to $25 million to reflect lower estimates from other outlets. Earnings figures come from Forbes’ annual estimates and Celebrity Net Worth’s year-by-year reporting; Olympic prize money comes from Parade’s calculation. Her age is arithmetic from a birth date — March 14, 1997 — confirmed identically by Olympics.com, Team USA, Britannica, and Wikipedia. Medal counts come from Olympics.com and Wikipedia’s medal record. Where sources differ by a small amount, such as her height at 142 cm versus 143 cm, or her former home’s asking price at $1.2 million versus $1.275 million, we report both and say so. Estimates may differ from private reality.

Sources: Celebrity Net Worth (net worth $25 million; annual earnings 2021–2024; Spring home sale, October 2026) · Parade (net worth $25 million, 2026; career Olympic prize money ~$147,500; October 2026 Jonathan Owens interview) · Forbes (annual earnings estimates, including $11.2 million in 2024) · Britannica (height 4 ft 8 in; 11 Olympic medals; profile updated October 26, 2026) · Wikipedia (birth date March 14, 1997; medal record 11 Olympic, 30 World) · EssentiallySports (LA 2028 training update, October 2026) · Billboard (Gold Over America Tour gross $19.3 million) · Team USA (official profile, height 4 ft 8 in).