When Did Nastia Liukin Retire?

Nastia Liukin while trying for the 2012 Olympic team, ended up falling on her face and didn’t make it. Liukin hadn’t planned to retire from the sport quite soon, but that fall made her “evaluate what was truly important”.

Nastia said the fall changed everything and she now sees it as the pivotal juncture of her career, as it helped her realise that her worth was not defined by results. After failing to make the 2012 Olympic team, she announced her retirement from the sport.

She is the 2008 Olympic All-Around champion, a five-time Olympic medalist, and the 2005 and 2007 world champion on the uneven bars.

Nastia also is a four-time all-around US national champion, winning twice as a junior and twice as a senior. With nine World Championships medals, seven of them individual, Liukin is tied with Shannon Miller for the third highest tally of World Championship medals.