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Rebeca Rodrigues de Andrade (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁeˈbɛkɐ ʁoˈdɾiɡis dʒi ɐ̃ˈdɾadʒi]; born 8 May 1999) [1] is a Brazilian artistic gymnast.Having won a total of six Olympic and nine World medals, she is the most decorated Brazilian and Latin American gymnast of all time, as well as the most decorated Brazilian Olympian in any discipline. [3]
Liukin was born on October 30, 1989, in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. She is the only child of two former Soviet champion gymnasts: 1988 Summer Olympics double-gold medalist Valeri Liukin and 1987 World clubs champion in rhythmic gymnastics Anna Kotchneva. [6][7] Her nickname Nastia is a Russian diminutive for Anastasia.
The following year she won the floor exercise at the 1991 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and placed second on the vault. In 1992 Chusovitina competed at the Olympics with the Unified Team, shared in the team gold medal and placed seventh in the floor final. She also won her second World Championships vault medal, a bronze.
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the Code of Points used to score performances and regulates all aspects of elite international competition.
Gymnastics World Championships refers to a number of different world championships for each of the disciplines in competitive gymnastics.The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) organizes World Championships for six disciplines: acrobatic gymnastics, aerobic gymnastics, artistic gymnastics, parkour, rhythmic gymnastics, as well as trampoline and tumbling.
The host nation achieved its best-ever haul of ten gold medals which has since been surpassed by its achievement in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, where Malaysia won twelve gold medals. This is an edition marked by several unprecedented facts in the history of the Commonwealth Games.
The 2028 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 2028 or LA28, is an upcoming international multi-sport event scheduled to take place from July 14–30, 2028, in the United States.
Julianne Alexandra Hough (/ hʌf /; born July 20, 1988) [ 1 ] is an American dancer, actress and television personality. In 2007, she joined the cast of ABC 's Dancing with the Stars as a professional dancer, winning two seasons with her celebrity partners. [ 2 ] After leaving the show in 2009, she returned in 2014 to serve as a judge on ...