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}} Anastasia Valeryevna "Nastia" Liukin ((ロシア語:Анастасия "Настя" Валерьевна Люкина); born October 30, 1989) is an American retired 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. She is also a four-time all-around U.S. 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 third-highest tally of World Championship medals (among U.S. gymnasts). Liukin also tied Miller's record as the American gymnast having won the most medals in a single non-boycotted Olympic Games. Liukin was a key member of the U.S. 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, after several falls at the Olympic Trials and other pre-Olympic events, and retired from the sport in 2012. ==Personal life== Liukin was born on October 30, 1989, in Moscow, Russia SFSR, Soviet Union. She is the only child of two former Soviet champion gymnasts: 1988 Summer Olympics gold medalist Valeri Liukin and 1987 world clubs champion in rhythmic gymnastics Anna Kotchneva. Liukin and her family are members of the Russian Orthodox church. Her nickname ''Nastia'' is a Russian diminutive for Anastasia. The family immigrated to the United States when Nastia was two and a half years old, following the breakup of the Soviet Union, and settled first in New Orleans before moving to Texas. In 1994, Valeri Liukin teamed up with another former Soviet champion athlete, Evgeny Marchenko, to open the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA) in Plano, Texas.〔 Liukin is fluent in English and Russian.〔〔 She graduated from Spring Creek Academy, located in Plano, Texas, in the spring of 2007. 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. She returned to campus in spring 2009, but her travel schedule and professional commitments caused her to withdraw before the end of the semester. She stated that she hoped to continue her studies at New York University in the future. Nastia's signature color is pink, hence her pink leotard worn during the 2008 Beijing Olympics all-around competition.〔 Liukin updates a blog on her official website and regularly posts on Twitter as @NastiaLiukin. She has a line of GK Elite leotards and grips and a line of pink gymnastics equipment from AAI. ''People Magazine'' claimed that Liukin was in a relationship with American figure skater Evan Lysacek in a February 2010 article,〔Benet, Lorenzo. ("Evan Lysacek & Nastia Liukin Are Dating" ). People Magazine. February 22, 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-22.〕 but Lysacek denied the rumors in an interview with ''Entertainment Tonight'', stating that the two were just "very close friends."〔("Hot Olympic Bachelor Evan Lysacek Clears Up Dating Rumors" ). Enternainment Tonight Online. February 22, 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-22.〕 On February 22, 2010, the two acknowledged they were dating when Liukin came to support Lysacek during his Olympic gold medal performance. In January 2013, Liukin began college at New York University, where she is studying sports management and psychology. On June 1, 2015, Nastia Liukin became engaged to her boyfriend, Matt Lombardi, a former Boston College hockey player. She announced the engagement on Instagram, with a photo of her ring and her fiance in the background, with the caption "So this just happened..." 〔 https://instagram.com/p/3Z_m1rESky/ 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nastia Liukin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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