Name	Daiane dos Santos
Fullname	Daiane Garcia dos Santos
Nickname	Dai
Country
Birth date	February 10, 1983
Birth place	Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Height
Discipline	WAG
Level	Senior
Club	Grêmio Náutico União
Headcoach	Oleg Ostapenko
Assistcoach	Iryna Ilyashenko
Choreographer	Nadejda Ostapenko
Eponymousskills	Dos Santos Dos Santos II
Medaltemplates	}}

Daiane Garcia dos Santos (born February 10, 1983) is one of Brazil's most successful female gymnasts. At the 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, at age 20, she won the world title on her specialty apparatus, the floor exercise.

Personal life

Daiane dos Santos was born in Porto Alegre. She lives in Curitiba, where she studies physical education at Dom Bosco University.

Career

Dos Santos began gymnastics at age 11.

She has two skills named after her on floor exercise called the ''Dos Santos'': Arabian double front somersaults in both piked and laid-out positions.

Her most famous routine's music is "Brasileirinho" by Waldir Azevedo, which she used for major achievements during 2004/2005 season.

2004

She represented Brazil in the 2004 Summer Olympics. She qualified for the floor exercises event final. During the final, she debuted the Dos Santos II skill, a double Arabian in layout position. She overroated a tumbling pass and went out of bounds. She placed fifth.

In December 2004, she became the World Cup floor champion, beating Olympic champion Cătălina Ponor.

2005

She made an attempt to defend her World Championship title in Melbourne. During the floor final, she fell backwards and placed 7th overall.

2006

In 2006, Dos Santos competed with a brand new routine to the music "Isto Aqui O Que É?" by Ary Barroso. With this program, she won her first gold medal under the new Artistic Gymnastics' score system Code of Points in Moscow's leg of FIG's World Cup.

Dos Santos decided to attend the 2006 World Championships, but she decided not to compete the Dos Santos II for a while.. She placed 4th in the floor event.

Dos Santos qualified for Brazil's World Cup Final 2005/2006 on Floor Exercise. She was still #1 in the world in floor exercise.

Dos Santos started on uneven bars, where she placed 7th. The next day, at the floor exercise final, she was in medal contention. Dos Santos debuted a new move, a full-twisting double layout, to her routine. During that program, she also performed the Dos Santos and a double layout. She set a new personal best under the new system (15.600). Dos Santos won her second consecutive Gold Medal at World Cup Final.

Brazil finished the competition with six medals.

2007

Dos Santos's first competition of 2007 was the World Cup event in Ghent in May. Dos Santos used it as a warm-up for the Pan American Games. She competed in the Floor and Uneven Bars event finals, placing 8th in the uneven bars and winning the bronze on the floor. During her floor routine, she replaced Double Arabian Tuck with a Full Twisting Double Tuck and the Double Layout with a Double Tuck.

In June 2007, Dos Santos attended a Tri-Meet competition in Natal/RN, in which Brazil competed against Great Britain and Canada. Brazil won all the gold medals. dos Santos won on the floor with a score of 15.225.

On July 6, dos Santos suffered a level 1 torsion on her right ankle and did not attend a Pan American Arena inauguration. Although the Brazilian Gymnastics Confederation (CBG) guaranteed her participation in Pan American Games, her doctors decided to wait 48 hours before the announcement, to be sure. She was later confirmed to take her spot in Brazil's Pan American Team.

Dos Santos was supposed to take part in floor and vault events, but during her team finals' floor routine on the first day of competition, she ran into difficulties. Her injury had not completely recovered, and she left the apparatus crying. She scored a low 15.150, and placed 3rd, which qualified her for the floor event final. However, she was not able to compete in the final. She was prevented to compete by the Technical Commission in order to avoid a worse lesion which could let her out of the 2007 Worlds in Stuttgart.

Dos Santos attended the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships competing with the team in the finals. Still not recovered, Daiane could not perform up to her level, but still helped her team to qualify 2nd time for the 2008 Olympics Games in Beijing and also to achieve a historic 5th place.

2008

Daiane underwent a six-month intensive treatment after the 2007 World Championship and the first signs of returning to her best could be seen during artistic gymanstics World Cups in Cottbus (Germany) and Tianjin (China) where she placed 4th in both of them. Following her good performances and trying to reach a best in Beijing, she decided along with coach Oleg Ostapenko to come back to her 2004–2005 floor music, crowd's favorite "Brasileirinho". In June, she went with team Brazil to friendly meets in Europe where she showed once again explosive tumblings including Dos Santos II which she has not been performing since Athens 2004.

She was selected for the Olympic Brazilian Team, but this time sharing the spotlight with newcomer Jade Barbosa (All-Around Bronze Medalist in 2007 Worlds). Initially, she was focused in help Brazil to reach the first Olympic Team Final ever; however she would try her best to make the floor exercise final once again. In the qualification round, Brazil started in their best apparatus, the floor. Daiane was last to perform. She opened her routine with a Tsukahara Layout (Full Twisting Double Layout) followed by the Dos Santos II, Double Layout and finishing with a Double Pike. The Chinese audience were amazed and the judges gave her the score 15.275 which was enough for her to reach the finals in 5th place. During the finals she went out of bounds twice, getting in 6th place with a 14.975

2009

Daiane tested positive for the banned drug Furosemide at an out-of-competition doping control in July 2009. She received a five month ban.

Results

1998

Gold Medal, floor, Canberra Cup, ''Australia.''

1999

Silver Medal, vault, Pan American Games, ''Winnipeg, Canada.''

Bronze Medal, floor, Pan American Games, ''Winnipeg, Canada.''

Bronze Medal, team competition, Pan American Games, ''Winnipeg, Canada.''

2001

Gold Medal, floor, Gymnastics Pan American. ''Cancún, Mexico.

#5, floor, World Championship. ''Ghent, Belgium.''

2003

Bronze medal, floor, World Cup. ''Cottbus, Germany.''

#5, uneven bars, World Cup. ''Cottbus, Germany.''

Bronze medal, team competition, Pan American Games. ''Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.''

#4, floor, World Cup.'' Paris, France.''

Gold medal, floor, World Cup. ''Stuttgart, Germany.''

#5, vault, World Cup. ''Stuttgart, Germany.''

#6, uneven bars, World Cup. ''Stuttgart, Germany.''

Gold medal, floor, World Championship. ''Anaheim, United States.''

2004

Gold medal, floor, World Cup. ''Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.''

#4, vault, World Cup. ''Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.''

Gold medal, floor, World Cup. ''Birmingham, United Kingdom.''

Gold medal, floor, World Cup. ''Lyon, France.''

Silver medal, vault, World Cup. ''Lyon, France.''

Gold medal, floor, World Cup. ''Cottbus, Germany.''

#4, vault, World Cup. ''Cottbus, Germany.''

Bronze medal, floor, World Cup. ''Stuttgart, Germany.''

#5, floor, Olympic Games. ''Athens, Greece.''

2005

Gold medal, floor, World Cup. ''São Paulo, Brazil.''

Gold medal, floor, World Cup. ''Paris, France.''

#7, floor, World Championship. ''Melbourne, Australia.''

2006

4th [tie], floor, World Championship. ''Aarhus, Denmark.''

#7, uneven bars, World Cup Final. ''São Paulo, Brazil.''

Gold medal, floor, World Cup Final. ''São Paulo, Brazil.''

2007

8th, uneven bars, World Cup. ''Ghent, Belgium.''

Bronze medal, floor, World Cup. ''Ghent, Belgium.''

Gold medal, team competition, Tri-Meet BRAxGBRxCAN. ''Natal, Brazil.''

Gold medal, floor, Tri-Meet BRAxGBRxCAN. ''Natal, Brazil.''

Silver medal, team competition, Pan American Games. ''Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.''

2008

4th, floor, World Cup. ''Cottbus, Germany.''

4th, floor, World Cup. ''Tianjin, China.''

6th, floor, Olympic Games 2008. ''Beijing, China.''

Floor Routines

2002/2003 Music: "Rumba para los rumberos" - S.V.: 10.00

''2003 World Championship'' 1st Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Arabian Pike 2nd Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Layout Double Turn-Tour Jete with Full Turn 3rd Pass: Front Pike-Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Arabian Tuck Cat Leap Double-Popa-11/2 Leap 4th Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Pike

2004/2005 Music: "Brasileirinho" - S.V.: 10.00

''2004 Olympic Summer Games (Athens)'' 1st Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Arabian Layout 2nd Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Arabian Pike Double Turn-Tour Jete with Full Turn 3rd Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Layout Double Leap-11/2Cat Leap-Cat Leap 4th Pass: Front Pike-Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Pike

2006/2007 Music: "Isto aqui o que é?" - Difficulty: 6.4

''2006 World Cup Final'' 1st Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Tsukahara Layout 2nd Pass: Front Pike-Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Arabian Pike Double Turn with Horizontal Leg-Jump with Full Turn and Horizontal Leg-Tour Jete with Full Turn 3rd Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Layout Switch Leap-Switch Side Leap-Tour Jete 4th Pass: Front Pike-Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Pike

2008 Music: "Brasileirinho" - Difficulty: 6.4

''2008 Olympic Summer Games (Beijing)'' 1st Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Full Twisting Double Layout 2nd Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Arabian Layout Double Turn, Switch leap into Tour Jete Half Turn, Tour Jete with Full Turn 3rd Pass: Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Layout Double Leap, Leap Jump 4th Pass: Front Pike-Round Off-Back Handspring-Double Pike

References

External links

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Photos at Gymbox.net

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Name	Nastia Liukin
Fullname	Anastasia Valeryevna Liukin
Nickname	Nastia, Nast
Country
Birth date	October 30, 1989
Birth place	Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Hometown	Parker, Texas, United States
Height
Weight	99 lb (45 kg)
Discipline	WAG
Level	Senior International Elite
Natlteam	8 (2002–2009)
Gym	World Olympic Gymnastics Academy
Headcoach	Valeri Liukin
Assistcoach	Natalya Marakova
Formercoach	Anna LiukinJoe Drake
Choreographer	Natalya Marakova
Music	"Variations on Dark Eyes (Occhi Chornye)" {Edit}by Lara St. John
Website	http://www.nastialiukin.com/
Medaltemplates	}}

}}

Anastasia Valeryevna "Nastia" Lyukina (; 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 States at three World Championships, the 2003 and 2007 Pan American Games, and the 2006 and 2008 Pacific Rim Championships.

Personal life

Liukin was born on October 30, 1989, in Moscow, Russia SFSR, USSR. 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 moved to the United States when Nastia Liukin was two and a half years old, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, and settled first in New Orleans before moving to Texas. In 1994, Valeri Liukin teamed with another former Soviet champion athlete, Evgeny Marchenko, to open the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA) in Plano.

Liukin is fluent in English and Russian. She graduated from Spring Creek Academy, located in Plano, Texas, in the spring of 2007. She had enrolled as a freshman international business major at Southern Methodist University in January 2008, but 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. Nastia's signature color is pink, hence her pink leotard worn during the 2008 Beijing Olympics All-Around competition.

Liukin currently updates a blog on her official website and regularly posts on Twitter as @NastiaLiukin. She has a line of GK Gymnastics Leotards and grips and a line of pink gymnastics equipment from AAI.

It is rumored that Nastia Liukin is in a relationship with American figure skater Evan Lysacek. ''People Magazine'' claimed to confirm their relationship in a February 2010 article, but Lysacek denied the rumors in an interview with ''Entertainment Tonight'', stating that the two are just "very close friends."

Junior career

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.

Liukin competed in her first National Championships as a junior in 2002, at the age of 12½. In contrast to her WOGA teammates Carly Patterson and Hollie Vise who finished first and second respectively, Liukin suffered a fall on the uneven bars which rendered her unable to finish the routine. She continued through the rest of the competition, and despite the incomplete bars set, finished 15th, which landed her one of the final spots on the U.S. National Team. 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, balance beam and all-around.

By 2003, Liukin was one of the strongest junior gymnasts in the United States. She won the junior division of the U.S. 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 2004. Liukin was a member of the gold-medal winning U.S. team at the 2003 Pan Am Games; she took second place in the all-around behind fellow American Chellsie Memmel. She also won the all-around in the junior division of the 2004 Pacific Alliance Championships.

Born in 1989, Liukin was ten months too young to compete as a senior in 2004, and thus was not eligible for a place on the U.S. team for the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Her scores in the junior division at the 2004 U.S. National Championships were competitive with those being posted by the seniors, and Marta Karolyi, U.S. National Team Coordinator, has said that if Liukin had been eligible, she would have been named to the Olympic team.

Senior career

2005–2006

In 2005, Liukin won her first senior National Championships and, once again, earned gold medals on the bars and beam. At the 2005 World Championships in Melbourne she finished second in the AA behind teammate Chellsie Memmel with a score of 37.822.

In event finals she won the gold on the uneven bars and balance beam, and the silver on the floor exercise.

In March 2006, Liukin placed first in the all-around at the American Cup. At the 2006 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.S. team's gold medal performance. 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. 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.

In late August, at the 2006 U.S. 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.S. team for the 2006 World Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, and was expected by many to be a strong contender for the all-around title. 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 16.2, the highest score of any competitor on any apparatus in the meet. Her bars routine in team finals scored a 15.7 and helped the U.S. team win the silver medal. Liukin also qualified for the event finals on bars, where she took a small step on her dismount and finished with a 16.05, earning a silver medal behind Britain's Beth Tweddle.

2007

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 2007, 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 2007, Liukin opted to compete all-around at the 2007 U.S. 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 16.375, the highest score of the day and, in the end, the entire World Championships. 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 15.175. The team recovered from this and other mistakes to finish first overall with 184.400, nearly a point ahead of the silver medal Chinese.

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 16.100 on bars, the highest score of the day from any competitor on any event, she finished the competition in fifth place. In the event finals, however, Liukin rallied and regained her World Champion title on the balance beam with a score of 16.025. She also earned a silver on the uneven bars, scoring a 16.300 after taking a step on her dismount.

2008

Liukin's first meet of the 2008 season was the American Cup in New York City, where she defeated 2007 winner Shawn Johnson to regain her title. She posted the highest score of the meet, a 16.600 on the uneven bars. 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 16.650 on the uneven bars, but in event finals, she fell on her Gienger release move and took a step on her dismount, earning a 15.225 and taking second place.

At the 2008 U.S. 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 17.050 in preliminaries and a 17.100 in finals, the highest recorded score for any American gymnast at any event since the advent of the new ''Code of Points.'' 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.

2008 Olympics

Liukin performed all-around in the qualifying round of competition. She qualified to the all-around final with a score of 62.375, which ranked her second among all competitors and 0.35 points behind Shawn Johnson, her friend and Olympic roommate. 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 16.900 was the highest mark awarded in the entire Olympic competition. Liukin performed second on balance beam, matching her qualifying score of 15.975. On floor exercise, she stepped out of bounds on her first tumbling pass, incurring a 0.10 point penalty, with a final score of 15.200. The American team earned the silver medal, 2.375 points behind China.

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 63.325. Shawn Johnson took the silver medal with a score of 62.725. 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 2000 Olympics, when Romanian gymnasts won gold and silver; Soviet gymnasts also won gold and silver all-around medals at the 1952 and 1960 Games.

In the event finals, Liukin displayed a beautiful routine to earn a surprising bronze medal on floor exercise with the score of 15.425, behind teammate Shawn Johnson with 15.500, and Romanian Sandra Izbasa with 15.650. 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. 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 16.025 to claim silver behind Shawn Johnson's 16.225. With her fifth Beijing medal, Liukin tied Mary Lou Retton and Shannon Miller for the most gymnastics medals won by an American in a single Olympic Games.

Following her success in Beijing, Liukin was named the USOC Female Athlete of the Month (August) and ultimately USOC Co-Sportswoman of the Year alongside swimmer Natalie Coughlin, the Women's Sports Foundation Individual Sportswoman of the Year, FIG Athlete of the Year and USAG Sportswoman of the Year. In addition she was ranked third in the Associated Press' 2008 Female Athlete of the Year voting.

In March 2009 Liukin was announced as one of 12 semifinalists for the AAU Sullivan Award. The annual award honors the athlete who best represents "the qualities of leadership, character, sportsmanship, and the ideals of amateurism". On April 15, 2009, Liukin's Olympic teammate Shawn Johnson won the AAU Sullivan Award.

2009

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. She placed 2nd behind teammate Ivana Hong. Liukin thought about competing uneven bars and beam at the U.S. Championships, but decided to once again just perform on beam. She placed 4th and looked on track to possibly make a fourth World Championships team. Liukin was added to the National Team and included in the World Championships selection camp. However, she pulled out of Worlds selection consideration because she felt that she was not quite up to World Championships standards.

Routines

As of 2008, Liukin performed the following skills on these apparatuses:

{|class="wikitable" |- | Apparatus || Skills || A Score || Top Score in World Championship/World Cup/Olympic Competition |- | Vault || Yurchenko 1½ || 5.5 || 15.100 (Olympic Qualifications) |- | Uneven Bars || Glide kip cast to HS (KCHS), Stalder shoot to HB (Ray); KCHS, Pike stalder 1/2 to eagle grip, Eagle endo, Ono, Healy, Ono 1/2, Gienger; KCHS, Pike stalder, Tkachev; KCHS, Pak salto; KCHS 1/2, Toe shoot to HB; KCHS, Giant 1/2 to eagle, double front 1/2 dismount || 7.7 || 16.9 (Olympics Team Finals) |- | Balance Beam || Press to handstand mount arms by ears; Front aerial walkover, Back flip flop, Layout stepout; Full turn w/ leg at horizontal; Switch leap 1/2; Split jump, sheep jump; Side salto tucked; Onodi, wolf jump 1/1; Salto forward piked, take of from one leg landing on one foot to scale (Liukin); Switch split ring leap; Round-off, 2½ twisting dismount || 6.7 || 16.400 (2008 Pacific Rim Championships) |- | Floor Exercise || Front Handspring (FHS), front layout 1/1, front 2/1; FHS Double front; Switch ring, Split leap full; RO 1½ -1½; Double turn w/ leg at horizontal; Switch leap 1/2; RO 2½ dismount || 6.2 || 15.525 (Olympic AA final) |}

Following the 2008 Olympic Games, Liukin had a skill on beam named after her in the 2005–08 FIG Code of Points. The 'Liukin' was rated as a D and was described as follows: salto forward piked, take off from one leg to one foot landing to scale, hold for two seconds. Changes in the 2009–2012 FIG Code of Points meant that the skill is no longer considered as an appropriate skill.

Floor music

On March 18, 2009, Liukin announced that she is working on a new floor routine.

2006–2008: "Variations on Dark Eyes (Occhi Chornye)" {Edit} by Lara St. John

2004–2006: "Second Kill" and "Building the Bullet" by Luis Bacalov

2001–2003: "Rondo Capriccioso" by Camille Saint-Saëns

Media appearances

Film and television

Outside of competitive gymnastics, Liukin had cameo roles in the April 2006 Touchstone Pictures film ''Stick It'', a 2008 episode of ''Gossip Girl'' and a quick cameo appearance on the newest Bravo TV show, ''NYC Prep''. She has expressed a desire to become an actress in the future. Following the Beijing Olympics, Liukin appeared on many talk shows in the United States, including ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'', ''Late Night With Conan O'Brien'', and the ''Oprah Winfrey Show''.

She also appeared in the second season of ''Make It or Break It''.

Liukin was on The Tour of Gymnastics Superstars, which was broadcast nationwide on MyNetworkTV. Tapings of the second show of the tour were included in ''Frosted Pink with a Twist'', which was a television special about women's cancers. The TV special aired on ABC on October 12, 2008, and featured singers Jesse McCartney, Kenny Loggins, Cyndi Lauper and Carole King.

Liukin is set to guest-star on the CW's ''Hellcats''.

Professional Alliances

Liukin has her own line of gymnastics equipment, which includes mats and balance beams in her signature pink, produced by American Athletic, Inc.

Liukin's corporate sponsors include Visa, AT&T;, GK Elite Sportswear and Longines. She appeared in an Adidas commercial with Nadia Comăneci which ran during the 2004 Olympics and a 2008 commercial for Visa Inc. She signed an endorsement deal on March 15, 2010 and appears in commercials for Subway After the Beijing Olympics, she was signed to be one of two American Olympians featured on Wheaties cereal boxes.

Liukin has expressed interest in the fashion world; she has served as a Longines Sports Ambassador of Elegance since 2006 and, along with her teammates Shawn Johnson and Alicia Sacramone, was one of the first female athletes ever to be signed as CoverGirl spokesmodels. She also collaborated with Vanilla Star Jeans to create a junior girls' clothing line and has modeled for Max Azria. In June 2010, she launched a line of girls' wear called Supergirl by Nastia for department store chain JC Penney.

In October 2008, Liukin partnered with World Vision to help her home state of Texas to recover from Hurricane Ike.

Competitive history

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rowspan="2"	2002	U.S. National Championships (junior)	|		|5||||5
align=left	Junior Pan American Championships	2nd||	1st	| style="background:silver;"|2nd||	2nd
rowspan="2"	2003	U.S. National Championships (junior)||	1st		style="background: gold"|1st||	1st	1st
align=left	Pan American Games	2nd||	1st	|style="background: gold"|1st||	3rd	3rd
rowspan="2"	2004	U.S. National Championships (junior)||	1st		style="background: gold"|1st||	1st	1st
align=left	Pacific Alliance Championships (junior)	1st||	1st	|style="background: gold"|1st||	1st	1st
rowspan="3"	2005	U.S. National Championships||	1st		4	1st	1st	2nd
align=left	World Championships	2nd||		style="background: gold"|1st||	1st	2nd
align=left	American Cup	|		style="background: gold"|1st||	6
rowspan="4"	2006	U.S. National Championships||	1st		style="background: gold"|1st||	1st	7
align=left	World Championships	|	2nd		style="background:silver;"|2nd||
align=left	Pacific Alliance Championships	1st||	1st	| style="background:silver;"|2nd||	1st
align=left	American Cup	1st||
rowspan="3"	2007	U.S. National Championships||	3rd		style="background:silver;"|2nd||	1st	12
align=left	World Championships	5||	1st	|style="background: gold"|1st||	2nd
align=left	Pan American Games	|	1st	| style="background:silver;"|2nd||	2nd
rowspan="5"	2008	U.S. National Championships||	2nd		style="background: gold"|1st||	1st	8
align=left	Pacific Rim Championships	1st||	1st	|style="background: gold"|1st||	2nd	4
align=left	American Cup	1st||
align=left	U.S. Olympic Trials	2nd||||5||	3rd	1st	2nd
align=left	Olympic Games	1st||	2nd	| style="background:silver;"|2nd||	2nd	3rd
rowspan="2"	2009	U.S. CoverGirl Classic||			2nd
align=left	U.S. National Championships	|		|4||

See also

List of multiple Olympic medalists at a single Games

References

External links

Official site

"Nastia Liukin", on ''Time''’s list of "100 Olympic Athletes To Watch"

Nastia Liukin talking about her experiences at the 2008 Beijing Games on Gymnastike.org

"Nastia Liukin: Reflecting on Beijing Part I" – Interview with Gymnastike (Dec 08)

"Nastia Liukin: Reflecting on Beijing Part 2" – Interview with Gymnastike (Dec 08)

Nastia Liukin Cup on Universal Sports

Nastia Liukin Speaks to SportsTownChicago.com

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