It marked the third time a U. Including the all-around gold medal, Liukin returned from Beijing with five Olympic medals — three silvers and one bronze. The result was especially emotional and fitting since Liukin achieved these feats at the same time her father marked the 20 th anniversary of his Olympic accomplishments.
For him to coach his only child to that milestone took some of the sting away from his own personal disappointment. I hope that this definitely tops it. I have a few more to go, but it is an amazing accomplishment just to be here with him, out on the floor 20 years after he competed. I think it just means so much more to both of us. All the injuries, tears, blood, rips — everything. Liukin made sure to present her father with his honor.
He sat me down and calculated the scores and was very strategic. He showed me it really was possible to win the all-around gold medal.
Liukin attempted to make a second Olympic bid, for the London Olympic Games, but came up short at the U. It was a difficult time for Liukin but one that taught her an enduring lesson. While Liukin is no longer dazzling crowds with her elegance or balletic grace in the gym, she remains active in the sport of gymnastics. She made a point of supporting up-and-coming gymnasts by creating the Nastia Liukin Cup gymnastics competition, and she travels the world to major gymnastics competitions as an NBC broadcaster.
The event was held in Stuttgart, where Liukin had won three of her nine world championship medals. Away from the mat, Liukin has remained busy as well. She earned her college degree from New York University in and has been involved with several business projects. She founded an app called Grander, which she has said is designed to inspire women in and out of sports.
She is also an avid fashion blogger. And now she joins an esteemed group of Olympians who are part of the U. Sierra Madre Street View map. Olympic Marks are used under license from the U. Friend's Email Address. Your Name. Your Email Address. Send Email. Nastia Liukin: Gold runs in the family. The daughter of a four-time Olympic medalist and a world champion, gymnast Nastia Liukin cemented her own legacy with all-around Olympic gold.
More in Spotlight. She was chosen to compete with the U. By , Liukin was one of the strongest junior gymnasts in the United States. She won the junior division of the U. National Championships, as well as gold medals on three of the four events: uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise. She repeated these accomplishments in Liukin was a member of the gold-medal winning U. She also won the all-around in the junior division of the Pacific Alliance Championships.
Born in , Liukin was ten months too young to compete as a senior in , and thus was not eligible for a place on the U. Her scores in the junior division at the U. National Championships were competitive with those being posted by the seniors, and Marta Karolyi, U. National Team Coordinator, has said that if Liukin had been eligible, she would have been named to the Olympic team. In , Liukin won her first senior National Championships and, once again, earned gold medals on the bars and beam.
In event finals she won the gold on the uneven bars and balance beam, and the silver on the floor exercise. In March , Liukin placed first in the all-around at the American Cup. At the Pacific Alliance Championships, Liukin tied with teammate Memmel for first in the all-around, won the uneven bars title and a silver medal on beam, and contributed to the U. She competed at the U. Classic as the defending all-around champion, but falls on the uneven bars and floor resulted in a fourth-place finish.
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 In late August, at the U. National Championships, Liukin successfully defended her all-around, beam and bars titles, becoming a two-time senior National Champion. She was named to the U. However, due to an ankle injury sustained in training before the competition began, she was only able to compete on one event, the uneven bars.
In spite of her injury, in the qualification round, Liukin's bars set earned a Her bars routine in team finals scored a Liukin also qualified for the event finals on bars, where she took a small step on her dismount and finished with a Liukin's ankle injury required surgery, and the recovery period kept her out of both national and international competition for much of the year. In July , although she was still recovering from her injury, she returned to competition as a member of the American team for the Pan Am Games in Rio de Janeiro.
She competed only on bars and beam, contributing to the team's gold medal finish and winning an individual silver medal in the uneven bars finals and an individual silver medal on the balance beam final. Despite limited training time on floor and vault in the summer of , Liukin opted to compete all-around at the U. National Championships. 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.
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. Following Nationals, Liukin was named to the American team for the World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, competing all-around in the team qualifying round and in on bars and beam in the finals. Liukin's score for her bars routine in team finals was a However, at the end of her beam routine, her foot slipped while she was setting up her dismount, prompting her to change her usual skill, a two and a half twisting salto, to a simple back tuck.
While she lost credit for her dismount, she also avoided a deduction for a fall, and earned a The team recovered from this and other mistakes to finish first overall with Liukin's struggles with the balance beam continued in the all-around final, where she fell from the apparatus during her flight series.
In spite of a In the event finals, however, Liukin rallied and regained her World Champion title on the balance beam with a score of She also earned a silver on the uneven bars, scoring a Liukin's first meet of the season was the American Cup in New York City, where she defeated winner Shawn Johnson to regain her title. She posted the highest score of the meet, a In March, Liukin competed at the Pacific Rim formerly Pacific Alliance Championships in San Jose, where she led the American team to a gold medal and won the all-around and balance beam titles.
In the team competition, Liukin posted an all-time high score of At the U. National Championships in Boston, Liukin fell on 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.
She regained her National Champion title on the beam and defended her national title on the uneven bars for the fourth consecutive year, scoring a In June, Liukin competed in the U. Olympic Trials in Philadelphia, finishing second behind Johnson, and earning a berth on the American team for Beijing.
Liukin performed all-around in the qualifying round of competition. She qualified to the all-around final with a score of Liukin also qualified to three event finals: beam, uneven bars and floor exercise; more than any other American competitor.
In the team finals, Liukin performed on three events: beam, bars and floor exercise. Her uneven bars score of The American team earned the silver medal, 2. On August 15, Liukin performed clean routines on all four events sticking her landings on 3 out of 4 events to win the all-around gold medal with a final score of Shawn Johnson took the silver medal with a score of The win marked the third time that an American woman had won the Olympic all-around title; Mary Lou Retton and Carly Patterson were the two previous American gold medalists.
It was also the fourth time in the history of the Games that two athletes from the same country have taken first and second place in the women's all-around. The last time this was accomplished was the Olympics, when Romanian gymnasts won gold and silver; Soviet gymnasts also won gold and silver all-around medals at the and Games.
In the event finals, Liukin displayed a beautiful routine to earn a surprising bronze medal on floor exercise with the score of On uneven bars, Liukin and China's He Kexin both posted final marks of However, He Kexin won the gold medal, and Liukin was awarded the silver, after a tie-breaking calculation that took into account individual marks given by judges on the B-panel.
In the balance beam final, Liukin scored The annual award honors the athlete who best represents "the qualities of leadership, character, sportsmanship, and the ideals of amateurism". 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.
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