Aug. 21
1901 鈥� William Larned wins the first of seven men鈥檚 singles titles in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championship.
1914 鈥� Walter Hagen captures the U.S. Open golf title by edging Chick Evans.
1920 鈥� Jock Hutchinson wins the PGA golf tournament with a 1-up victory over J. Douglass Edgar.
1931 鈥� Babe Ruth of New York hits his 600th home run as the Yankees beat the St. Louis Browns 11-7.
1932 鈥� Helen Hull Jacobs beats Carolyn Babcock to win the women鈥檚 singles title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association.
1982 鈥� Mystic Park becomes the first 3-year-old trotter to win the American Trotting Championship.
1985 鈥� Mary Decker sets the world record in the mile run with a time of 4:16.71 in Zurich.
1990 鈥� Kelly Craig becomes the first female starting pitcher in Little League World Series history, opening for Trail, British Columbia. She fails to retire any of the three batters she faces but the Canadian champions rally for an 8-3 victory over Matamoros, Mexico.
2003 鈥� Paul Hamm puts together a near-perfect routine on the high bar to become the first American man to win the all-around gold medal at World Gymnastics Championships. Needing a 9.712 or better to beat China鈥檚 Yang Wei, Hamm strings together four straight release moves during his 60-second routine 鈥� one of the toughest feats in gymnastics 鈥� for a 9.975 and the gold.
2004 鈥� American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 6th gold medal of the Athens Olympics even though he doesn鈥檛 swim the final of men鈥檚 4 x 100m medley relay; US wins in world record 3:30.68.
2008 鈥� At the Summer Olympics in Beijing, Yukiko Ueno pitches 28 innings in two days, including seven to shut down the U.S. softball team, 3-1, and give Japan the gold medal. It was the first loss for the Americans since Sept. 21, 2000 鈥� 22 straight games. LaShawn Merritt upsets defending champion Jeremy Wariner to lead a U.S. sweep of the 400 meters track event. David Neville gets the bronze. The U.S. men and women both drop the baton in the Olympic 400-meter relays and fail to advance out of the first round. Jamaica鈥檚 Veronica Campbell-Brown easily wins the 200 meters to cap the first sweep of all four men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 Olympic sprints in 20 years.
2010 鈥� Kyle Busch makes NASCAR history with an unprecedented sweep of three national races in one week, completing the trifecta with a victory in the Sprint Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway. Busch, winner of the Nationwide race a day earlier and the Trucks race on Aug. 18, becomes the first driver to complete the sweep since NASCAR expanded to three national series in 1995.
2011 鈥� The Los Angeles Sparks run off 16 straight points to overcome a 15-point, second-half deficit and hand the Tulsa Shock their WNBA-record 18th consecutive loss with a 73-67 victory. The Atlanta Dream lost 17 in a row in their inaugural season of 2008.
2016 鈥� Kevin Durant scores 30 points and helps the Americans rout Serbia 96-66 for their third straight gold medal. That caps an Olympics in which the U.S. dominated the medal tables, both the gold (46) and overall totals (121). The 51-total-medal margin over second-place China the largest in a non-boycotted Olympics in nearly a century.
2018 鈥� Liu Xiang of China sets a world record time of 26.98 seconds to win the women鈥檚 50-meter backstroke gold medal at the Asian Games. Liu becomes the first woman to swim under 27 seconds in the event, breaking the mark of 27.06 set by fellow Chinese swimmer Zhao Jing at the 2009 world championships in Rome.
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Aug. 22
1851 鈥� The United States wins the first international yacht race. The schooner named 鈥淎merica鈥� beats 14 British yachts.
1885 鈥� Richard Sears beats Godfrey M. Brinley, 6-3, 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 to win the U.S. men鈥檚 national tennis championship held at the Newport (R.I.) Casino.
1898 鈥� Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight F. Davis, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 to win the U.S. men鈥檚 national tennis championship held at the Newport (R.I.) Casino.
1948 鈥� The Chicago Cardinals beat the College All-Stars 28-0 in front 101,220 fans at Chicago鈥檚 Soldier Field.
1949 鈥� The Philadelphia Eagles beat the College All-Stars 38-0 at Chicago鈥檚 Soldier Field. It鈥檚 the largest shutout in the series, later matched by Green Bay in 1966.
1950 鈥� Althea Gibson becomes the first black tennis player to be accepted in competition for the national championship.
1957 鈥� Floyd Patterson knocks out Pete Rademacher in the sixth round to retain his world heavyweight title at Sicks Stadium in Seattle.
1965 鈥� In the third inning of a game against Los Angeles, pitcher Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants hits catcher John Roseboro of the Dodgers in the head with his bat. A 14-minute brawl ensues and Roseboro suffers cuts on the head. Marichal thought Roseboro threw too close to his head when returning the ball to Sandy Koufax.
1984 鈥� Evelyn Ashford sets the world record in the 100-meter dash with a clocking of 10.76 seconds in a meet at Zurich, Switzerland.
1987 鈥� Brazil snaps the 34-game winning streak of the U.S. men鈥檚 basketball team with a 120-115 victory in the Pan Am Games. Oscar Schmidt scores 46 points to lead Brazil. Cuba wins a record 10 of 12 gold medals in boxing and beats the U.S. 13-9 in the baseball final.
1989 鈥� Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers becomes the first pitcher to strike out 5,000 batters in a 2-0 loss to the Oakland Athletics. Ryan fans Rickey Henderson swinging on a 3-2, 96 mph fastball for No. 5,000.
1994 鈥� DNA testing links O.J. Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman.
1999 鈥� Jenny Thompson breaks Mary T. Meagher鈥檚 18-year-old 100-meter butterfly record at the Pan Pacific swim championships. Thompson with a time of 57.88 seconds lowers the mark of 57.93 set by Meagher.
2004 鈥� American sprinter Justin Gatlin wins the coveted Olympic 100m gold medal in Athens in 9.85 ahead of Francis Obikwelu of Portugal & American Maurice Greene.
2007 鈥� The Texas Rangers becomes the first team in 110 years to score 30 runs in a game, setting an American League record in a 30-3 rout of the Baltimore Orioles in the first game of a doubleheader.
2008 鈥� Usain Bolt helps Jamaica win the 400-meter relay final in 37.10 seconds for his third gold medal and third world record of the Beijing Games. Bolt becomes only the fourth man, and the first since Carl Lewis in 1984, to win all three Olympic sprint events. Bryan Clay wins the decathlon, the first American to win the 10-discipline event at the Olympics since Dan O鈥橞rien at Atlanta in 1996.
2018 鈥� Ohio State suspends football coach Urban Meyer three games for mishandling repeated professional and behavioral problems of an assistant coach, with investigators finding Meyer protected his protege for years through domestic violence allegations, a drug problem and poor job performance.
2018 鈥� The NCAA ditches the RPI for its own evaluation tool to select teams for the NCAA Tournament. The NCAA Evaluation Tool will rely on game results, strength of schedule, game location, scoring margin, net offensive and defensive efficiency and quality of wins and losses. NET will be used for the 2018-19 season by the committee that selects schools and seeds the tournament.
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Aug. 23
1898 鈥� Malcolm Whitman wins the men鈥檚 singles title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championship.
1926 鈥� Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan to capture her seventh singles title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championships.
1933 鈥� The first televised boxing match is an exhibition fight between Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri, staged at the Broadcasting House in London.
1946 鈥� The College All-Stars beat the Los Angeles Rams 16-0 at Chicago鈥檚 Soldier Field.
1947 鈥� The College All-Stars beat the Chicago Bears 16-0, before a record crowd of 105,840 at Chicago鈥檚 Soldier Field. It鈥檚 the second and last time that the college team won in consecutive years.
1969 鈥� Audrey McElmory becomes the first American to win the world road cycling championship which is held in Brno, Czechoslovakia. McElmury overcomes rain and a fall during the fourth lap of the 62-kilometer race to beat Britain鈥檚 Bernadette Swinnerton by one minute and 10 seconds.
1975 鈥� Classical Way completes the trotting sweep by winning the Challenge Cup in 3:07.1 at Roosevelt Raceway.
1987 鈥� Callit wins the International Trot in 2:33.4 at Roosevelt Raceway.
1995 鈥� Denis Pankratov of Russia breaks a 9-year-old world record in the men鈥檚 100-meter butterfly at the European swimming championships in Vienna, Austria with a time of 52.32 seconds.
2004 鈥� The U.S. softball team wins its third straight gold medal with a nearly unblemished romp through the Olympics, capped by a 5-1 victory over Australia. Lisa Fernandez pitches a four-hitter and Crystl Bustos homers twice in the Americans鈥� best all-around game of the tournament.
2008 鈥� The star-studded American women鈥檚 basketball team led by the likes of Lisa Leslie, Sue Bird & Diana Taurasi win the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics with a convincing 92-65 win over Australia.
2008 鈥� At the Beijing Games, Angel Matos of Cuba and his coach are banned for life after the taekwondo athlete kicks the referee in the face following his bronze-medal match disqualification against Kazakhstan鈥檚 Arman Chilmanov. Matos is declared the loser for taking too much injury time after hurting his leg. Matos angrily questions the call, pushes a judge, then pushes and kicks referee Chakir Chelbat of Sweden.
2012 鈥� Lance Armstrong chooses not to pursue arbitration in the drug case brought against him by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. That鈥檚 his last option in his bitter fight with USADA and his decision sets the stage for the titles to be stripped and his name to be all but wiped from the record books of the sport he once ruled.
2014 鈥� Nick Davila passes for 237 yards and eight touchdowns and the Arizona Rattlers win their third consecutive ArenaBowl title with a 72-32 victory over the Cleveland Gladiators.
2015 鈥� Ohio State becomes the first unanimous preseason No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll. The defending national champion Buckeyes, receive all 61 first-place votes from the media panel in the rankings.
2015 鈥� Usain Bolt wins the 100-meter race at the World Championships in Beijing, edging Justin Gaitlin by 0.01 seconds.
2020 鈥� UEFA Champions League Final, Lisbon: Kingsley Coman heads German giants Bayern Munich to the club鈥檚 6th crown in a 1-0 win over Paris St-Germain.
2020 鈥� Takuma Sato of Japan wins his second Indianapolis 500 under yellow caution flag after a crash with three laps remaining.
2024 鈥� Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers steals a base and hits a grand slam in 7-3 win at home over Tampa, becoming just the 6th MLB player to have 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a season; he does so in the fewest amount of games, 126.
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Aug. 24
1904 鈥� Holcombe Ward wins the men鈥檚 singles title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association singles title.
1908 鈥� Tommy Burns knocks out Bill Squires in the 13th round at Sydney, Australia to retain the world heavyweight title.
1925 鈥� Helen Wills, 19, wins her third straight U.S. Lawn Tennis Association singles title with a 3-6, 6-0, 6-2 victory over Kathleen McKane. An hour later, Wills teams up with Mary K. Browne to win the doubles title.
1929 鈥� Helen Wills wins her sixth U.S. Lawn Tennis Association singles title by defeating Phoebe Holcroft Watson, 6-4, 6-2.
1963 鈥� The Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. is covered by ABC鈥檚 Wide World of Sports for the first time.
1963 鈥� Don Schollander becomes the first swimmer to break the two-minute barrier in the 200-meter freestyle with a 1:58.4 time in a meet at Osaka, Japan.
1963 鈥� John Pennel breaks the 17-foot barrier in the pole vault with a 17-0戮 vault in a meet at Miami.
1988 鈥� Minnesota North Stars forward Dino Ciccarelli is sentenced to one day in jail and fined $1,000 for hitting another player with his stick. Ciccarelli, who was given a match penalty and 10-game suspension by the league for the Jan. 6, 1988 attack on Toronto鈥檚 Luke Richardson, is believed to be the first NHL player to receive a jail term for an on-ice attack of another player.
1989 鈥� Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling.
1996 鈥� Hsieh Chin-hsiung sets a Little League World Series record with his seventh home run as Taiwan wins the title for the 17th time with a 13-3 victory over Cranston, R.I.
2003 鈥� Jockey Julie Krone becomes the first female rider to win a million-dollar race taking the Pacific Classic at Del Mar aboard Candy Ride.
2004 鈥� Four-time world 1,500 champion Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco, a heartbreak loser at the last two Olympics, holds off Bernard Lagat down the stretch to win in 3 minutes, 34.18 seconds. El Guerrouj edges Lagat by .12 seconds for the gold medal. El Guerrouj had lost four races in the last eight years, but two of those defeats came at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics.
2006 鈥� After signing a one-day contract with the San Francisco 49ers, Jerry Rice officially retires from the NFL.
2007 鈥� The NFL indefinitely suspends Michael Vick without pay just hours after he acknowledged in court papers that he did, indeed, bankroll gambling on dogfighting and helped kill some dogs not worthy of the pit.
2008 鈥� On the final day of the Beijing Games, the United States beats Spain 118-107 and win the gold medal in men鈥檚 basketball for the first time since 2000. China has one of the most dominating and diverse performances at an Olympics ever, winning a games-leading 51 golds and an even 100 overall. The United States finishes with 110 medals and trails well behind the Chinese in golds with 36, the first time since 1992 it doesn鈥檛 lead the category.
2008 鈥� Hawaii鈥檚 mini-mashers get a little help from Mexico鈥檚 miscues to win a fourth straight Little League World Series title for the United States. Tanner Tokunaga smacks two homers and Iolana Akau adds a solo blast as the boys from Waipahu, Hawaii, defeat Matamoros, Mexico, 12-3.
2008 鈥� Danny Lee becomes the U.S. Amateur鈥檚 youngest champion, supplanting Tiger Woods by holding off Drew Kittleson 5 and 4. The 18-year, 1-month-old Lee is six months and 29 days younger than Woods when he won the first of his three Amateurs in 1994.
2018 鈥� French Open Tennis bans Serena Williams鈥� black Nike catsuit from future tournaments citing 鈥榬espect for the game and the place鈥�.
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Aug. 25
1804 鈥� Alice Meynell becomes the first woman jockey as she rides in a four-mile race in York, England.
1888 鈥� Henry Slocum becomes the first man to win the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association singles title besides Richard Sears.
1904 鈥� Jim Jeffries knocks out Jack Munroe in the second round in San Francisco to retain the world heavyweight title.
1908 鈥� The first $50,000 trotting race in the United States, the American Trotting Derby, is won by Allen Winter with Lon McDonald driving.
1922 鈥� In one of the wildest games ever played, the Cubs beat the Phillies 26-23. The Cubs led 25-6 in the fourth inning, but held on as the game ended with the Phillies leaving the bases loaded.
1946 鈥� Ben Hogan wins the PGA championship with a 6 and 4 win over Ed Oliver.
1950 鈥� Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Jose Basora at 52 seconds of the first round to retain world middleweight boxing title.
1968 鈥� Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship.
1973 鈥� The NASL championship is won by the Philadelphia Atoms with a 2-0 victory over the Dallas Tornadoes.
1974 鈥� The Los Angeles Aztecs edge the Miami Toros 4-3 to win the NASL Championship.
1984 鈥� France鈥檚 Lutin D鈥橧signy wins the $250,000 International Trot by seven lengths, the largest margin of victory in this race. Jean-Paul Andre drives Lutin D鈥橧signy to a world record trot for the 1录-mile in 2:30, smashing the record of 2:31.2 shared by Speedy Scot and Noble Victory.
1991 鈥� Carl Lewis reclaims his title of world鈥檚 fastest human by setting a world record of 9.86 seconds in the 100-meter final in the world championships in Tokyo. Lewis clips four-hundredths of a second off the previous mark of 9.90 set by Leroy Burrell in the U.S. Championships two months earlier.
1996 鈥� Tiger Woods wins an unprecedented third U.S. Amateur Championship, beating Steve Scott on the 38th hole after coming back from 5-down with 16 to play and 2-down with three to go.
2006 鈥� Japan鈥檚 Yusaku Miyazato becomes the first golfer to make two holes-in-one in the same round of a PGA Tour tournament when he aces a pair of par 3s at the Reno-Tahoe Open.
2011 鈥� The New York Yankees become the first team in major league history to hit three grand slams in a game, with Robinson Cano, Russell Martin and Curtis Granderson connecting in a 22-9 romp over the Oakland Athletics.
2012 鈥� Alpha and longshot Golden Ticket finish in a historic dead heat in the $1 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. Golden Ticket leads the field of 11 3-year-olds in the stretch, but 2-1 favorite Alpha closes strongly and the two hit the finish line in tandem. It鈥檚 the first dead heat in the 143 runnings of the Travers, and a rare finish for any Grade 1 race. Alpha pays $4.10 and 33-1 shot Golden Ticket returns $26.80 to win.
2013 鈥� Teen star Lydia Ko runs away with the Canadian Women鈥檚 Open with a five-stroke victory over Karine Icher. The 16-year-old New Zealand amateur successfully defends her title, closing with a 6-under 64 for her fourth win in 14 professional events.
2020 鈥� Chicago White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito throws a no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-0 at Guaranteed Rate Field, Chicago.
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Aug. 26
1933 鈥� Helen Hull Jacobs captures the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association singles title when Helen Wills Moody defaults in the third set because of back and hip pain.
1939 鈥� The first major league baseball game is televised. NBC broadcasts a doubleheader at Brooklyn鈥檚 Ebbets Field between the Cincinnati Reds and the Dodgers.
1950 鈥� Australia wins its third straight Davis Cup by beating the U.S. 4-1.
1961 鈥� The International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto.
1972 鈥� The New York Cosmos win the NASL championship by defeating the St. Louis Stars 2-1.
1989 鈥� Chris Drury pitches a five-hitter and Trumbull, Conn., becomes the first American team since 1983 to capture the Little League World Series, defeating Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 5-2.
1993 鈥� Sean Burroughs, the son of former major leaguer Jeff Burroughs, pitches his second no-hitter of the Little League World Series and hits two home runs, sending defending champion Long Beach, Calif., past Bedford, N.H., 11-0 in the final of the U.S. bracket.
1995 鈥� Greg Norman sinks a 66-foot chip on the first playoff hole, to capture the World Series of Golf and become the leading money winner in PGA Tour history. Norman wins $360,000 in his third tour victory this year to raise lifetime earnings to $9.49 million and overtake Tom Kite.
1997 鈥� Carl Lewis finishes his track-and-field career anchoring star-studded team to victory in the 400-meter relay to cap the ISTAF Grand Prix meet in Berlin. The team of Olympic 100-meter champion Donovan Bailey, former world record-holder Leroy Burrell and Namibian sprint champion Frankie Fredericks, win in 38.24 seconds.
1999 鈥� Michael Johnson shatters another world record at the world championships 鈥� this time, breaking the 400-meter mark with a time of 43.18. He cuts 0.11 seconds off the record of 43.29 set by Butch Reynolds in 1988 and ties Carl Lewis for the most gold medals at the championships with eight.
2004 鈥� Lindsay Tarpley and Abby Wambach score as the U.S. beats Brazil 2-1, maintaining an undefeated record to win the women鈥檚 football gold medal at the Athens Olympics.
2011 鈥� The Tulsa Shock snap the longest losing streak in WNBA history with a 77-75 win over the Los Angeles Sparks. The Shock (2-25) had 20 straight losses before Sheryl Swoopes hit a jumper with 2.9 seconds left.
2011 鈥� Kyle Busch records his record-breaking 50th NASCAR Busch Series victory, edging teammate Joey Logano in the Food City 250 at the Bristol Motor Speedway. Busch breaks a tie with Mark Martin for the record in NASCAR鈥檚 second-tier series.
2012 鈥� Lydia Ko wins the Canadian Women鈥檚 Open to become the youngest winner in LPGA Tour history and only the fifth amateur champion. The 15-year-old South Korean-born New Zealander closes with a 5-under 67 for a three-stroke victory over Inbee Park.
2016 鈥� San Francisco 49ers Colin Kaepernick kneels in protest during the U.S. national anthem at San Diego鈥檚 Qualcomm Stadium while playing against the San Diego Chargers, objecting to racial injustice and police brutality in the U.S.
2016 鈥� Dan Raudabaugh throws six touchdown passes and the Philadelphia Soul win their second ArenaBowl title, beating the Arizona Rattlers 56-42.
2017 鈥� Kyle Snyder scores a late takedown of Olympic gold medalist Abdusalim Sadulaev in the deciding match, and the U.S. wins the world freestyle wrestling title for the first time in 22 years.
2017 鈥� Floyd Mayweather Jr. stops UFC champion Conor McGregor on his feet in the 10th round in Las Vegas. The much-hyped 154-pound fight is more competitive than many expected when an unbeaten, five-division world champion boxer takes on a mixed martial artist making his pro boxing debut.
2020 鈥� Milwaukee Bucks forfeit their NBA playoff game after the shooting of Jacob Blake, leading to the NBA postponing more games.
2024 鈥� Boston Red Sox catcher Danny Jansen becomes 1st MLB player to play for both teams in the same game; game against Toronto Blue Jays on June 26 was suspended due to weather, and he was traded prior to the resumption.
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Aug. 27
1884 鈥� Richard Sears beats Howard Taylor 6-0, 1-6, 6-0, 6-2 to win his fourth straight U.S. national tennis championship.
1903 鈥� Britain鈥檚 Hugh Doherty is the first non-American to win the men鈥檚 singles title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championships with a 6-0, 6-3, 10-8 victory over the William Larned.
1909 鈥� William Larned wins his fifth U.S. singles tennis title with a five-set victory over William Clothier in Newport, R.I.
1928 鈥� Helen Wills beats Helen Hull Jacobs to take the fifth women鈥檚 singles title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championships. Wills needs only 33 minutes, defeating Jacobs 6-2, 6-1.
1957 鈥� Hickory Smoke, driven by John Simpson, Jr., wins the Hambletonian Stakes after capturing the fifth and deciding heat.
1969 鈥� Lindy鈥檚 Pride, driven by Howard Beissinger, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in straight heats.
1975 鈥� Onny Parun of New Zealand defeats Stan Smith 6-4, 6-2 in the first night match at the U.S. Open before a crowd of 4,949 at the West Side Tennis Club.
1976 鈥� Transsexual Renee Richards, formerly Richard Raskind, is barred from competing at the U.S. Open tennis championships after refusing to submit to a chromosome qualification test.
1978 鈥� Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases.
1978 鈥� The Cosmos defeat the Tampa Bay Rowdies 3-1 to win the NASL Championship.
1982 鈥� Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season, breaks Lou Brock鈥檚 mark.
1985 鈥� Mary Joe Fernandez, 14, becomes the youngest player to win a match at the U.S. Open. Fernandez beats Sara Gomer 6-1, 6-4.
1996 鈥� Stefan Edberg stuns Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek at the U.S. Open, winning 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 in his record 54th straight and final Grand Slam event.
1999 鈥� Maurice Greene and Inger Miller win at 200 meters at the world championships, giving the U.S. a sprint sweep. Greene is the first to win the 100 and 200 at a major global meet since Carl Lewis at the 1984 Olympics.
2006 鈥� Marco Andretti, 19, becomes the youngest winner of a major open-wheel event, beating Dario Franchitti by 0.66 seconds to take the Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma.
2015 鈥� Usain Bolt wins his fourth straight 200-meter title at the world championships, finishing in 19.55 seconds in Beijing.
2018 鈥� Simona Halep becomes the first No. 1-seeded woman to lose her opening match at the U.S. Open in the half-century of the professional era. Halep is overwhelmed by 44th-ranked Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 6-2, 6-4.
2023 鈥� Gymnast Simone Biles (26) wins her record 8th U.S. Championship in San Jose, California.
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