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Nastia Liukin. Anastasia " Nastia " Valeryevna Liukin OLY ( / ˈljuːkɪn /; Russian: Анастасия Валерьевна Люкина Russian pronunciation: [ˈlʲʉkʲɪnə]; born October 30, 1989) is an American former artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic all-around champion, a five-time Olympic medalist, the 2005 and 2007 World ...
American female gymnasts have participated in every Olympic Games since 1936, except for 1980. [2] A total of 90 female gymnasts have represented the United States. American women have won 62 medals at the Olympics – 11 in team all-around, 11 in individual all-around, 7 in vault, 10 in uneven bars, 11 in balance beam, and 12 in floor exercise.
This is a list of the gymnasts who represented their country at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich from 26 August to 11 September 1972. Only one discipline, artistic gymnastics , was included in the Games.
A heartwarming display of sportsmanship by two American gymnasts has won praise from fans in a viral moment that lit up social media and is likely to become an enduring image of the Paris Olympics.
August 1, 2024 at 9:00 AM. Beacon became a superstar when he joined the Team USA gymnastics team at the Olympics trials in Minneapolis, but the golden retriever's story started several years ago ...
The women of the 2008 and 2012 Olympics US Gymnastics teams are no longer the sweet-faced teens you watched on TV. Now in their 20s and beyond, these talented ladies are no longer competing on ...
Note: The International Gymnastics Federation recommended to the IOC that the medals of the Chinese team be stripped, and awarded to the fourth-placed United States team, as it was revealed that Dong Fangxiao was underage (14, with age limit >16) at the time. The IOC upheld the FIG decision in April 2010.
The United States women team is currently third in the all-time medal count for the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. The first American gymnast to win a medal at the World Championships was Cathy Rigby who won silver on beam in 1970. [3] The first female American gymnast to win a world title was Marcia Frederick in 1978 on the uneven ...