[28], In March 2006, Liukin placed first in the all-around at the American Cup. [22][23], 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.. 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.[7][11][24]. The team recovered from this and other mistakes to finish first overall with 184.400, nearly a point ahead of the silver-medal Chinese.[34]. Nastia is my role model in gymnastics I take it too im in novice i got 3rd in the state and going to florida for regionals! However, she scored extremely well on the balance beam and was the only competitor in the meet, junior or senior, to earn a score over 16.00 on this event. After a 3 years engagement they married in Jun 2018. 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. [10][25] She was chosen to compete with the U.S. team at the 2002 Junior Pan American Championships, where she contributed to the team gold medal and placed second on the uneven bars and balance beam and in the all-around. She stated that she hoped to continue her studies at New York University in the future. In spite of her injury, in the qualification round, Liukin's bars set earned a 16.2, the highest score of any competitor on any apparatus in the meet. Liukin was on The Tour of Gymnastics Superstars, which was broadcast nationwide on MyNetworkTV. On February 24, 2015, Liukin was announced as one of the celebrities who would compete on the 20th season of Dancing with the Stars. Liukin later returned to Dancing with the Stars during season 27 to be a trio partner to Mary Lou Retton and Sasha Farber. She posted the highest score of the meet, a 16.600 on the uneven bars. Liukin decided that she was not done with gymnastics and made her first post-Olympics competitive appearance at the CoverGirl Classic, where she competed only on balance beam. Personal life. She was partnered with professional dancer and five-time champion Derek Hough. She also collaborated with Vanilla Star Jeans to create a junior girls' clothing line and has modeled for Max Azria. Nastia Liukin is a 30 year old American Gymnastics. In the team finals, Liukin performed on three events: beam, bars and floor exercise. gymnasts). 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[7], Liukin is fluent in English and Russian. news [47] On uneven bars, Liukin and China's He Kexin both posted final marks of 16.725 and earned identical A- and B-panel scores of 7.70 and 9.025, respectively. Matt Lombardi and Nastia Liukin separated in ... Nastia Liukin and Evan Lysacek separated in 2... See and more from FamousFix.com, Spring Creek Academy, Plano, Texas (-2007), Southern Methodist University, New York University (2013-), 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, Celebrity Talent International, World Entertainment Talent Agency, Visa, Adidas, Wheaties, Vanilla Star Jeans, nastialiukin.com/, twitter.com/NastiaLiukin, www.facebook.com/NastiaLiukin08, www.youtube.com/nastialiukincom, www.biography.com/people/nastia-liukin-20845035, www.nndb.com/people/713/000352654/, Rihanna, Ashlee Simpson, Taylor Swift, Avril Lavigne, Britney Spears. On April 15, 2009, Liukin's Olympic teammate Shawn Johnson won the AAU Sullivan Award.[52]. [77], 2008 Olympic gymnastics all-around champion. She competed only on bars and beam, contributing to the team's gold-medal finish and winning individual silver medals in the uneven bars and balance beam finals. Despite the end of her gymnastics career, Liukin went to London as the athlete representative for the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).[54]. [30] She competed at the 2006 U.S. Classic as the defending all-around champion, but falls on the uneven bars and floor resulted in a fourth-place finish.

She finished all the obstacles in Stage 1, with the help of Barclay Stockett. photos, [62], On May 4, 2015, Liukin was announced as the grand marshal for the 99th Indianapolis 500.[63]. [19], On June 1, 2015, Liukin was engaged to Matthew Lombardi, a former Boston College and NHL hockey player. She is also a four-time all-around U.S. national champion, winning twice as a junior and twice as a senior. In June, Liukin competed in the U.S. Olympic Trials in Philadelphia, finishing second behind Johnson and earning a berth on the American team for Beijing. In 2005, Liukin won her first senior National Championships and, once again, earned gold medals on the bars and beam. At the 2008 U.S. National Championships in Boston, Liukin fell on the floor on her double front tuck the first day of competition, but had a strong meet on her other events and placed second in the all-around behind Shawn Johnson. However, she also suffered several falls and errors on floor and vault, and finished in third place overall, more than five points behind Shawn Johnson, the all-around gold medalist. Liukin was added to the national team and included in the World Championships selection camp. On August 15, Liukin performed clean routines on all four events (sticking her landings on three out of four events) to win the all-around gold medal with a final score of 63.325. The TV special aired on ABC on October 12, 2008, and featured singers Jesse McCartney, Kenny Loggins, Cyndi Lauper and Carole King. 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. Liukin's gymnastics career came to an end after the 2012 Olympic Trials. She enrolled as a freshman 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. Liukin was known for her long, expressive lines and flexibility, but was infamously weak on vault, the most difficult vault she performed being a 1.5 twisting Yurchenko vault. Born Anastasia Valeryevna Liukin on 30th October, 1989 in Moscow, Soviet Union, she is famous for 2008 Olympic individual all-around Champion, the 2005 and 2007 World Champion on the balance beam, … She posted the highest score of the entire meet on bars and the second highest score on beam on the second day of competition, winning the senior bars title for the third year in a row and placing second on beam. After several months of conditioning, training, revamping routines and showing readiness at summer training camp, Liukin petitioned for a spot at the Visa National Championships. Nastia Liukin is a 30 year old American Gymnastics. Nastia Liukin – ESPYS 2019 Awards in Los Angeles. [72] In June 2010, she launched a line of girls' wear called Supergirl by Nastia for department store chain JC Penney. 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