Valeri Liukin
Olympic athlete
1966 –
Who is Valeri Liukin?
Valeri Viktorovich Liukin is a retired competitive artistic gymnast who competed for the former Soviet Union. Liukin is the 1988 Olympic Champion in the team competition and individually on the horizontal bar and Olympic silver medalist in the all-around and the parallel bars. He is now a coach.
Liukin is the first man to do a triple back flip on floor and both a layout Tkatchev and a Jaeger with full twist on high bar.
He moved to the United States and became a U.S. citizen in 2000. He is married to Anna Kotchneva and is the father and coach of 2008 Olympic champion Nastia Liukin. He is co-owner of the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy with longtime friend Evgeny Marchenko.
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- Born
- Dec 17, 1966
Aktyubinsk - Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Russia
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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