World champion gymnasts

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 92. Chapters: Nadia Comaneci, Larissa Latynina, Lilia Podkopayeva, Vera Cáslavská, Ludmilla Tourischeva, Yelena Shushunova, Simona Amânar, Nastia Liukin, Shawn Johnson, Svetlana Khorkina, Alicia Sacramone, Shannon Miller, Beth Tweddle, Andreea Raducan, Elena Mukhina, Oksana Chusovitina, Nellie Kim, Daniela Silivas, Nikolai Andrianov, Cheng Fei, Aliya Mustafina, Chellsie Memmel, Marian Dragulescu, Courtney Kupets, Lavinia Milosovici, Daiane dos Santos, Yuri Korolev, Vitaly Scherbo, Ecaterina Szabo, Gina Gogean, Li Xiaopeng, Kim Gwang-Suk, Svetlana Boginskaya, Elena Zamolodchikova, Oksana Omelianchik, Bart Conner, Ksenia Semenova, Alexei Nemov, Alexander Dityatin, Maxi Gnauck, Natalia Kuchinskaya, Mo Huilan, Ivan Ivankov, Ágnes Keleti, Karin Büttner-Janz, Boris Shakhlin, Olga Mostepanova, Xiao Qin, Ksenia Afanasyeva, Emilia Eberle, Jordan Jovtchev, Tamara Manina, Mitsuo Tsukahara, Kim Zmeskal, Yang Wei, Dmitry Bilozerchev, Natalia Yurchenko, Dina Kochetkova, Alexander Vasilyevich Tkachyov, Viktor Chukarin, Li Ning, Vanessa Ferrari, Ma Yanhong, Masao Takemoto, Hollie Vise, Erika Zuchold, Kui Yuanyuan, Marius Urzica, Henrietta Ónodi, Jury Chechi, Diego Hypólito, Kurt Thomas, Maria Olaru, Zoltán Magyar, Galina Shamrai, Aurelia Dobre, Mikhail Voronin, Eva Bosáková, Olesya Dudnik, Donghua Li, Fan Ye, Chen Yibing, Yuri van Gelder, Miroslav Cerar, Szilveszter Csollány, Helena Rakoczy, Takashi Ono, Tatiana Nabieva, Akinori Nakayama, Aljä Pegan, Danut Grecu, Elena Gómez, Igor Korobchinsky, Andreas Wecker, Lou Yun, Valery Belenky, Nikolai Kryukov, Dimosthenis Tampakos, Vlasios Maras, Iryna Krasnianska, Roland Brückner, Gabriele Faehnrich, Olga Bicherova, Koji Gushiken, Ling Jie, Kim Dae-Eun, Yekaterina Kurbatova, Philippe Rizzo, Pae Gil-Su, Teng Haibin, Dumitrita Turner, Mitja Petkov¿ek, Feng Jing, Dagmar Kersten, Dörte Thümmler, Michael Nikolay, Boriana Stoyanova, Annelore Zinke, Alexei Voropaev. Excerpt: Anastasia Valeryevna "Nastia" Lyukina (Russian: ; born October 30, 1989) is a Russian-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 and Alicia Sacramone as the American gymnasts having won the most World Championship medals. Liukin has also tied Miller's record as the American gymnast having won the most medals in a single non-boycotted Olympic Games. The daughter of two former Soviet champion gymnasts, Olympic gold medalist Valeri Liukin ¿ the first man to do a triple backflip ¿ and World Champion rhythmic gymnast Anna Kotchneva, Nastia Liukin was born in Moscow and moved to the United States as a young child. She began gymnastics after spending time in the gym while her parents coached. Liukin is coached by her father at the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy, her family's gymnastics club in Plano, Texas. Liukin became a member of the U.S. junior national team when she was 12 years old and won the National all-around title at the age of 13. She was the all-around silver medalist at the 2003 Pan American 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. She has been the U.S. senior National Champion on the uneven bars since 2005. Liukin has represented the United ...