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Valeri Viktorovich Liukin (Russian: Валерий Викторович Люкин; born 17 December 1966 in Aktyubinsk, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union) is a Kazakh-American retired artistic gymnast currently working as a gymnastics coach.
Mar 3, 2022 · Valeri Liukin, a gymnastics coach who is in the running to be named the high-performance director for USA Gymnastics and considered the favorite to earn the gig, is reportedly "under...
Mar 3, 2022 · Valeri Liukin, front-runner for top USA Gymnastics post, is being investigated for alleged verbal and mental abuse. The U.S. Center for SafeSport has been investigating the former Olympic and...
On February 2, Valeri Liukin resigned as national team coordinator. On February 28, Raisman filed a lawsuit against USAG and the USOC, claiming both organizations "knew or should have known" about the ongoing abuse.
Mar 14, 2022 · Former Olympic champion Valeri Liukin will head Team USA at an international competition in Germany this week while under investigation by the U.S. Center for SafeSport for allegedly verbally...
Valeri Liukin — a former Soviet Olympic champion and the father of 2008 U.S. gold-medal winner Nastia Liukin — had been the coordinator since September 2016, when he took over from...
Sep 16, 2016 · Valeri Liukin, a four-time Olympic medalist and father of 2008 Olympic champion Nastia Liukin, was chosen the successor to Karolyi on Friday. Karolyi retired last month after guiding Team USA to nine medals at the Rio Olympics, including four golds for all-around champion Simone Biles.
Valeri Liukin. Class of 2016 · Disciplines (s): Women's Artistic · Inducted as: Coach. Liukin is a co-founder and owner of WOGA. He coached Nastia Liukin, who won the 2008 Olympic all-around title and has five Olympic and nine World medals to her credit; Rebecca Bross, who has six World medals; Katelyn Ohashi, who has five U.S. junior titles, ...
Sep 16, 2016 · Valeri Liukin, 49, has been USA Gymnastics’ elite developmental coordinator since 2013 and was most seen at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, guiding his daughter to the Olympic all-around title. “I’ve never been more proud to be his daughter,” Nastia Liukin said, according to USA Gymnastics.
Born December 17, 1966, in Aktyubinsk, Kazakhstan, then part of the USSR, Valery Liukin thrilled the sporting world in 1987 as the first gymnast in history to compete a triple back somersault on floor exercise.
