The top two qualifiers and the only two gymnasts to score above 15.0 on floor in the all-around event, the pair performed the two most difficult routines in the competition. So it wasn’t a surprise when they finished, in a repeat of the all-around results, with gold and silver. Amy Tinkler from Great Britain won bronze.

Happy as they were the results, both Biles and Raisman say they were prouder that they earned higher scores on their last routines in Rio than they had during the rest of the competition.

“I think we put the cherry on top with Aly and me finishing on floor as well as we did,” said Biles.

Biles’ and Raisman’s two medals gave the U.S. women nine in Rio, surpassing the eight the team won in 2008.

That’s five medals for Biles, 19, and her fourth gold in Rio—which ties her with four other gymnasts for the record at a single Olympic Games. Those records are decades old, however, set at a time when the scoring for gymnastics was different, and the skills gymnasts threw in their routines were far tamer than the acrobatics that athletes like Biles and Raisman pull off today. In the modern era, where more difficult and intricate skills are rewarded, no other gymnast has the level and variety of skills on vault, beam, bars and floor as Biles.

“There is some sense of relief,” she said after finally completing her seven days of competition in Rio. “But I am sad at how fast this whole thing went. I’m excited it’s over but kind of sad too.”

U.S. National Team Coordinator Martha Karolyi, who coached Romania’s Nadia Comeneci to gold in her first Olympics, in 1976, said both Comeneci and Biles “are ahead of their time. Nadia was so much better than everybody else at that time, and right now I think Simone is so much better than the whole field all over the world.”

Aimee Boorman, Biles’ longtime coach, called the Games “fulfilling,” despite her star pupil falling shy of the five golds some had expected from her when she earned a bronze in the beam.

Raisman, who at 22 is affectionately known as “grandma” by her younger teammates, was happy with silver, joking that in any competition with Biles, second is as good as winning. “She’s just in another level,” Raisman said Tuesday. “It’s amazing; it’s hard to put into words. I can’t believe she has four gold medals. I’m in awe of watching her and I’ve trained with her for so long. Laurie said before floor today, if you get silver you’re the best because Simone doesn’t count.”

Each member of the Final Five, as the U.S. women named themselves, leaves Rio with at least two medals — their team gold and hardware from their individual events. It’s a fitting finale for the group that will be the last to compete as a quintet. In 2020, the Olympic teams will consist of only four members. It’s also the last team that will be overseen by Karolyi, who retires after Rio.

“It’s been a phenomenal experience, and the whole team did a very good job,” says Biles. “And we ended on a good note for Martha.”

Simone Manuel, who is sharing a room with Ledecky in the athletes’ village here, became the first African-American woman to win an individual event in Olympic swimming on Thursday night. She and Penny Oleksiak of Canada tied for the fastest time, an Olympic record in the women’s 100-meter freestyle: 52.70 seconds.

“I definitely think it raises some awareness and will get them inspired,” Manuel, 20, said about the significance of her accomplishment. “I mean, the gold medal wasn’t just for me. It was for people that came before me and inspired me to stay in the sport. For people who believe that they can’t do it, I hope I’m an inspiration to others to get out there and try swimming. You might be pretty good at it.”

Manuel and Oleksiak shaved 0.01 seconds off the Olympic standard of 52.71, set earlier in the Rio Games meet by Australia’s Cate Campbell. Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom won the bronze in 52.99.

The last time an American won gold in the event was 1984, when Nancy Hogshead and Carrie Steinseifer also tied and shared the gold medal with a time of 55.92 seconds.

Several black swimmers have won Olympic medals for the United States. The first female of African-American descent to make an American Olympic team was Maritza Correia, a member of the 400-meter freestyle relay team that won silver at the 2004 Athens Games.

Lia Neal, a Brooklyn native, won a bronze in a relay at the 2012 London Games and a silver in a relay here at the Rio Games.

Anthony Ervin and Cullen Jones, who are black, have won Olympic gold medals.