Nastia Liukin
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- Birthday
- 1989-10-30
- Nickname
- Nastia Nasty
- Birthname
- Anastasia Valeryevna Liukin
- Sign
- Scorpio
- Hometown
- Parker Texas
- Country
- Russian Federation
- Ethnicity
- White
- Height
- 5'3"
- Weight
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- Job
- Olympic Gymnast
- Hobbies
- Reading Swimming Shopping AIM
- Assets
- Flexible Pretty Hazel-colored Eyes And A Dazzeling Smile
- Vices
- BIG Forehead
Nastia Liukin is a Russian-American artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic individual all-around gold medalist and is the third American woman to win the all-around gold after Mary Lou Retton in 1984 and Carly Patterson in 2004.
Nastia also won the 2005 and 2007 World Champion on the balance beam, and the 2005 World Champion on the uneven bars. With nine World Championships medals, seven of them individual, Liukin is tied with Shannon Miller as the American gymnast having won the most World Championship medals.
The daughter of two former Soviet champion gymnasts, Olympic gold medalist Valeri Liukin and World Champion rhythmic gymnast Anna Kotchneva, Nastia Liukin was born in Moscow and moved to the United States as a young child after the breakup of the Soviet Union. She began gymnastics after spending time in the gym while her parents coached. Liukin is coached by her father at the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy, her family's gymnastics club in Plano, Texas.
