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It's now Simone Biles against history. Gymnastics' consensus G.O.A.T. added to her 2024 Paris Olympics haul and overall Olympic medals record Saturday morning, picking up the seventh gold medal of her career -- the third-most of any female American Olympian -- and third of the Games with a first-place finish in the individual vault finals.

Biles' seventh gold moves her into a tie for second-most won by a female gymnast, while her 10th medal puts her into a tie for third-most won overall, both the most in at least 58 years as her only contemporaries competed more than a half-century ago. She is the second female gymnast to win two vault golds.

Previously winning vault as part of a four-gold run at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, she is now in position to surpass that haul and win a fifth gold in Paris if she takes both the individual floor exercise and balance beam finals on Monday. Biles qualified first among eight finalists on floor and second on beam. The 27-year-old earned her first two 2024 golds this week with wins in the team finals and individual all-around finals.

Biles was up against familiar competition as Saturday's vault chase began but again came out on top with a 15.300 average, 0.334 clear of silver medalist Rebeca Andrade of Brazil. American teammate Jade Carey was superb as well; she nailed both her vault attempts to finish 0.834 behind Biles but on the podium with a bronze medal.

Andrade and Carey were up against it from the outset Saturday given the dizzying level of difficulty awarded to Biles' signature maneuver -- formally known as the Yurchenko double pike but colloquially dubbed the "Biles II" because the American is the only woman to ever execute it in a competition setting.

The significant difficulty allows her to achieve higher scores if she succeeds on the move, which starts with a back handspring onto the vault table followed by two backward flips in pike position (body folded at the waist with hands grabbing knees) as she flies as high as 12 feet in the air -- launching thousands of memes along the way.

Biles, performing fourth of eight athletes, scored a 15.700 on that one Saturday and followed with a 14.900 on a slightly less daunting "cheng" vault for an average of 15.300. Andrade performed sixth and significantly lifted her game from qualifiers, posting 15.100 and 14.833 for a 14.966 average. Carey followed and wrapped up the competition with a 14.466 average.

The United States has now won two medals on each of the individual competitions thus far with Suni Lee taking bronze behind Biles in the all-around competition on Thursday. Biles also shared the podium twice with Aly Raisman in 2016.