The Most Famous
GYMNASTS from Kazakhstan
This page contains a list of the greatest Kazakhstani Gymnasts. The pantheon dataset contains 370 Gymnasts, 1 of which were born in Kazakhstan. This makes Kazakhstan the birth place of the 44th most number of Gymnasts behind Cuba, and Algeria.
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 (b. 1966)
With an HPI of 48.10, Valeri Liukin is the most famous Kazakhstani Gymnast. His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
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. He also has one of the most difficult skills in men's artistic gymnastics named after him, the triple back (tucked) somersault.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Kazakhstani gymnasts born between 1966 and 1966. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kazakhstani gymnasts include Valeri Liukin.
