In contrast to her WOGA teammates Carly Patterson and Hollie Vise, who finished first and second, respectively, Liukin fell on the uneven bars that rendered her unable to finish the routine. Liukin competed in her first National Championships as a junior in 2002, at the age of 12 and a half. Liukin's parents initially did not aspire for their daughter to become a gymnast, knowing the pressure of high-level competition firsthand, but relented when they noticed her aptitude for the sport. Liukin began gymnastics at the age of three because she was "always hanging around in the gym" with her parents, who could not afford a babysitter to look after her while they were working as coaches. įrom July 2019 to July 2020, Liukin dated Sam Martin. My whole experience on the national team with USA Gymnastics was nothing but positive." Throughout 2017, she was criticised for her lack of support for the victims, until she addressed the criticisms in a January 2018 blog post. In March 2017, she said she was "completely shocked" when she heard about the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal saying the following about Larry Nassar: "Every encounter that I had with him was professional. By November 2018, she and Lombardi had called off their engagement. On June 1, 2015, Liukin was engaged to Matt Lombardi, an American former Boston College hockey player who played for 2 seasons in the ECHL.
People Magazine claimed that Liukin was in a relationship with American figure skater Evan Lysacek in a February 2010 article, but Lysacek denied the rumors in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, stating that the two were just "very close friends." In January 2013, Liukin attended New York University where she studied sports management and psychology, graduating in May 2016.
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She returned to campus in spring 2009, but her travel schedule and professional commitments caused her to withdraw before the end of the semester. She enrolled as an international business major at Southern Methodist University in January 2008, and took a leave from classes to concentrate on preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games. She graduated from Spring Creek Academy, located in Plano, Texas, in the spring of 2007. In 1994, Valeri Liukin teamed up with another former Soviet champion athlete, Yevgeny Marchenko, to open the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA) in Plano, Texas. The family immigrated to the United States when Nastia was two and a half years old, following the breakup of the Soviet Union, and settled first in New Orleans before moving to Texas. Her nickname Nastia is a Russian diminutive for Anastasia. Liukin and her family are members of the Russian Orthodox church.
She is the only child of two former Soviet champion gymnasts: 1988 Summer Olympics double-gold medalist Valeri Liukin and 1987 world clubs champion in rhythmic gymnastics Anna Kotchneva. Liukin was born on October 30, 1989, in Moscow, Russia SFSR, Soviet Union. Liukin did not make the 2012 Olympic team, and retired from the sport in 2012. In October 2011, Liukin announced that she was returning to gymnastics with the hopes of making a second Olympic team. She represented the United States at three World Championships and one Olympic Games. 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. 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. national champion, winning twice as a junior and twice as a senior. She is the 2008 Olympic All-Around champion, a five-time Olympic medalist, the 20 world champion on the balance beam, and the 2005 world champion on the uneven bars. Anastasia Valeryevna Liukina ( / ˈ lj uː k ɪ n/ Russian: Анастасия Валерьевна Люкина born October 30, 1989) is a Russian-born American former artistic gymnast.
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