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Valeri Liukin

1966 - Today

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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. Representing 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Valeri Liukin has received more than 691,054 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Valeri Liukin is the 179th most popular gymnast (down from 148th in 2019), the 109th most popular biography from Kazakhstan (down from 90th in 2019) and the most popular Kazakhstani Gymnast.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 36.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Valeri Liukin ranks 179 out of 370. Before him are Kōhei Uchimura, Simona Amânar, Mariana Constantin, Henrietta Ónodi, Andreea Răducan, and Lavinia Miloșovici. After him are Aliya Mustafina, Mary Lou Retton, Lou Yun, Simona Păucă, Andreas Wecker, and Peter Vidmar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Valeri Liukin ranks 647. Before him are Vyacheslav Oliynyk, Alenka Zupančič, Shamsul Maidin, Nenad Kljaić, Nayim, and Marco Werner. After him are Lilian Garcia, Katsuo Kanda, Tuc Watkins, David Nicholls, Daisy Fuentes, and Robert Hedin.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Valeri Liukin ranks 109 out of 193. Before him are Aleksandr Tarkhanov (1954), Denis Ten (1993), Boris Alexandrov (1955), Evgeni Nabokov (1975), Vassiliy Jirov (1974), and Yermakhan Ibraimov (1972). After him are Bekzat Sattarkhanov (1980), Eduard Hämäläinen (1969), Alexander Parygin (1973), Serik Sapiyev (1983), Alexey Lutsenko (1992), and Ömürbek Babanov (1970).

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Among GYMNASTS In Kazakhstan

Among gymnasts born in Kazakhstan, Valeri Liukin ranks 1. 

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