The 26-year-old Biles and her team-mates Shilese Jones, Leanne Wong, Skye Blakely and Joscelyn Roberson were in outstanding form at the Sportpaleis in the Belgian city.

Biles’ floor routine in the final rotation helped the team seal the victory by more 2.199 points over Brazil, with an overall score of 167.729.

Biles’ training partner Roberson did not compete in the team final due to an ankle injury she suffered in warmups on the vault and the 17-year-odl was later spotted on crutches.

Wong competed in her place through several rotations Brazil won its team medal at the World Championships and France took third to win the bronze medal, a good boost for them less than a year before the Olympics is due to take place in Paris.

The US are so dominant that they sat top of the leaderboard in almost every discipline going into tonight’s final and the team’s performances in the vault, beam, floor, all-around and team competitions secured their seventh consecutive World Championships victory.

They had been equalled with the Chinese men’s team, winners of six titles between 2003 and 2014.

Biles recorded 14.800 points in the vault, 14.466 on the bars and 14.300 on the beam in the first three apparatus before taking to the floor.26^th overall having also won three silver and three bronze.

She smiled throughout her routine as she performed her twists and turns full of confident in her first major international competition since the re-arranged 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, barely putting a foot wrong, as the judges gave her a score of 15.166 points.

For Biles, the team victory the 20th World Championships gold medal of her career and 26^th in total having also won three silver and three bronze.

The American gymnast has now tied Belarusian Vitaly Scherbo with the most overall medals at 33 in the Olympic and World Championships.

At 34, Biles would become most decorated gymnast in history.

Biles is scheduled take part in the women’s individual all-around final on Friday (October 6), before the women’s vault and uneven bars finals on Saturday (October 7) and the balance beam and floor exercise finals the following day as the Championships conclude.

What has made this even more special for Biles was that she returning to the place where she made her World Championships debut in 2013, when she won all-round and floor exercise gold, as well as vault silver and beam bronze.

By competing in Antwerp this time around, Biles became the first woman to represent the US at six World Championships.

Even before tonight’s gold medal, Biles had made history on the opening day of Championships when she finished first in the women’s all-around qualification and became the first woman to land the Yurchenko double pike vault - a high-difficulty skill historically only done by men - at an international competition.

In sticking the landing, the vault featuring a round-off entry and a back handspring onto the apparatus followed by two flips is now known as the "Biles II” after a different, original vault was named after her in 2018.