The Most Famous
GYMNASTS from Kazakhstan
This page contains a list of the greatest Kazakhstani Gymnasts. The pantheon dataset contains 183 Gymnasts, 1 of which were born in Kazakhstan. This makes Kazakhstan the birth place of the 32nd most number of Gymnasts behind Serbia and Austria.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kazakhstani Gymnasts of all time. This list of famous Kazakhstani Gymnasts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Valeri Liukin (1966 - )
With an HPI of 36.28, Valeri Liukin is the most famous Kazakhstani Gymnast. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Valeri Viktorovich Liukin (Russian: Валерий Викторович Люкин; born 17 December 1966 in Aktyubinsk, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet-born Kazakh-American retired artistic gymnast turned gymnastics coach. As a competitor for the former Soviet Union, Liukin was the 1988 Olympic champion in the team competition and individually on the horizontal bar, and Olympic silver medalist in the all-around and the parallel bars. Liukin was the first man to do a triple back flip on floor and both a layout Tkatchev and a Jaeger with full twist on high bar. He also has one of the most difficult skills in men's artistic gymnastics named after him, the triple back (tucked) somersault. Liukin moved to the United States in 1992 and became a U.S. citizen in 2000. He is married to Anna Kotchneva, and is the father and coach of 2008 Olympic champion Nastia Liukin. He is co-owner of the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy with longtime friend Yevgeny Marchenko. On 15 December 2015, it was announced that Liukin had been inducted as a part of the 2016 class of the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame. From 16 September 2016 to 2 February 2018, he was the coordinator for the United States women's national gymnastics team, replacing Márta Károlyi. He coached the Brazilian women's gymnastics team as of 2018.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as gymnasts born between 1966 and 1966. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living gymnasts include Valeri Liukin.
