Valery Viktorovich Lyukin

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Valery Viktorovich Lyukin ( Russian Валерий Викторович Люкин ; born December 17, 1966 in Aktyubinsk , Kazakh SSR ) is a former Soviet gymnast and current coach.

1987 he became the first gymnast worlds in an official competition in gymnastics after a Radwende a triple somersault backwards. Until then, double somersaults were considered the highest performance in floor exercise.

Ljukin did gymnastics for the Dinamo Alma-Ata sports club and was the most successful gymnast in the Soviet Union in the 1980s . In 1988 he won Olympic victories with the team and on the horizontal bar . He was trained by Eduard Jarow . Numerous other medals and awards followed by 1994. Among other things, he received the award "Honored Master of Sports".

Today Ljukin lives in Plano in Texas , USA, and runs a gymnastics school there with the former sports acrobat Yevgeny Marchenko, the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA). In the WOGA he trained, among other things, the all-round Olympic champion from 2004 Carly Patterson . He is married to the former gymnast Anna Kotschnewa . The couple have a daughter, gymnast Nastia Liukin , who trains Valery Lyukin herself. In 2005 Valery Ljukin was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame .

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SURNAME Lyukin, Valery Viktorovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Люкин, Валерий Викторович (Russian); Liukin, Valeri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet gymnast and trainer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th December 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Aktyubinsk , Kazakh SSR