Name: Nastia Liukin
Birth name: Anastasia Valeryevna Liukin
Date of birth: October 30, 1989
Birthplace: Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Anastasia Valeryevna Liukin was born on October 30, 1989. She is a Russian-American artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic individual all-around gold medalist, 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 as the American gymnast having won the most World Championship medals.