American gymnasts Gabrielle Douglas and Simone Biles won the 2015 World Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland on Thursday, according to USA Today.
Biles was the first woman to win three consecutive titles at the World Artistics Gymnastics Championships, Newsmax noted.
Biles took home the gold medal and Douglas took home the silver at the SSE Hydro Arena, The Guardian reported.
Douglas debuted in Houston at the 2008 U.S. Classic where she placed 10th. She won gold medals as a member of the U.S. Women's Gymnastics team at the 2012 Summer Olympics and was also a member of the gold-winning 2011 American World Championship team.
“I really wanted to prove to everyone that my comeback was real, that it wasn’t fake or for the fame or anything,” Douglas told The Guardian. “I really want to come out with confidence and show that I was back, and that I was back for the right reasons.”
Native Texan Biles served on the American teams at the 2014 and 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She has won 14 medals - 10 gold - the most medals out of all American female gymnasts in the history of World Championships.
“On beam, I think I gave the whole world a heart attack as well as myself out there, and then floor I’d never gone out of bounds, but I guess there’s a first for everything,” Biles said. “I have this background on my phone and it says ‘Blow your own mind’ and I think that’s what I did.”
Douglas, 19, and 18-year-old Biles will try for spots on the 2016 U.S. Olympic team at the U.S. team trials in San Jose, Calif., in July 2016, according to The Guardian. They hope to represent the United States in the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
