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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.
Head coach(es) Valeri Liukin: Former coach(es) Natalia Marakova: Choreographer: ... She was coached by Valeri Liukin at WOGA Gymnastics in Plano, Texas. [2] Career
She will be coached by Liukin's father and former coach, Valeri Liukin, who is an Olympic gold medalist himself. The switch to the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy is one of several gym changes ...
The World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA) is a two-facility gymnastics club located in Frisco and Plano.. In 1994, WOGA was established by Yevgeny Marchenko, a World Sports acrobatic champion who guided Carly Patterson to her gold medal, and Valeri Liukin, a Soviet Olympic winner from 1988 who later worked as coordinator for the USA Gymnastics women's national team.
This was so Hezly could train with Valeri Liukin, the father of five-time Olympic medalist Nastia Liukin and coach to three-time Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas, per The New York Post. Hezly ...
Coach Valeri Liukin, Nastia's father, confirmed in February that Douglas was back in action and training in Frisco, Texas. Now that she has announced it herself, three past Olympic champions are ...
Since 1990, USA Gymnastics has kept a list of people permanently banned from coaching for sexual abuse and other reasons. The list includes Robert Dean Head, a USAG coach in Kentucky who in 1992 pled guilty to raping a 12-year-old, and Don Peters, the national coach for the 1984 Olympic team, who was banned in 2011 after two former gymnasts accused him of sexual abuse.
Marchenko and close lifelong friend, Valeri Liukin, moved to the United States following their retirements from Gymnastics. They had the intent of opening their own gym in New Orleans, Louisiana until a chance visit from a friend who wanted to see them in Plano, Texas. After seeing potential business opportunities in Texas, Marchenko and Liukin ...