Nastia Liukin

Anastasia Valeryevna Liukina ?lju?k?n Russian ????????? ?????????? ?????? ?l??k??n? born October 30 1989 is a Russianborn American former artistic gymnast She is the 2008 Olympic AllAround champion a fivetime 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 fourtime allaround US 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 thirdhighest tally of World Championship medals among US gymnasts Liukin also tied Millers record later equaled by Simone Biles as the American gymnast having won the most medals in a single nonboycotted Olympic Games Liukin was a key member of the US 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 and retired from the sport in 2012 Description above from the Wikipedia article Nastia Liukin licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia