Nastia Liukin

Nastia Liukin

Anastasia Valeryevna "Nastia" Liukin (Russian: Анастасия "Настя" Валерьевна Люкина; born October 30, 1989) is a retired American artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic individual all-around Champion, 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 for the second-highest tally of World Championship medals (among US gymnasts); Liukin has also tied Miller's record as the American gymnast having won the most medals in a single non-boycotted Olympic Games.

Since 2005, Liukin has been a key member of the U.S. senior team. She is a four-time all-around U.S. National Champion, winning twice as a junior and twice as a senior. Liukin has represented the United States at three World Championships. In October 2011, Liukin announced that she was returning to gymnastics with the hopes of making the 2012 Olympic team. She did not make the team and retired from the sport in 2012.