Nastia Liukin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Nastia Liukin

retired Russian-American artistic gymnast

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1989

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Profession: artistic gymnast

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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About Nastia Liukin

  • Anastasia Valeryevna "Nastia" Liukina (; Russian: ????????? "?????" ?????????? ?????? ['l??k??n]; born October 30, 1989) is a Russian American former artistic gymnast.
  • She is the 2008 Olympic all-around champion, a five-time Olympic medalist, the 2005 and 2007 world champion on the balance beam, and the 2005 world champion on the uneven bars.
  • She is also a four-time all-around U.S.
  • national champion, winning twice as a junior and twice as a senior.
  • With nine World Championships medals, seven of them individual, Liukin is tied with Shannon Miller for the third-highest tally of World Championship medals (among U.S.
  • gymnasts).
  • Liukin also tied Miller's record (later equaled by Simone Biles) as the American gymnast having won the most medals in a single non-boycotted Olympic Games.Liukin was a key member of the U.S.
  • senior team.
  • She represented the United States at three World Championships and one Olympic Games.
  • In October 2011, Liukin announced that she was returning to gymnastics with the hopes of making a second Olympic team.
  • Liukin did not make the 2012 Olympic team, after several falls at the Olympic Trials and other pre-Olympic events, and retired from the sport in 2012.

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