Anastasia Valeryevna "Nastia" Liukin tied for the third-highest tally of world championship medals with a former gymnast who was the Olympic balance beam champion in what year?
Nastia Liukin Anastasia Valeryevna "Nastia" Liukin (Russian: Анастасия "Настя" Валерьевна Люкина ; born October 30, 1989) is a Russian American former artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic individual all-around champion, the 2005 and 2007 world champion on the balance beam, and the 2005 world champion on the uneven bars. She is also a four-time all-around U.S. 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 (among U.S. gymnasts). Liukin also tied Miller's record as the American gymnast having won the most medals in a single non-boycotted Olympic Games.
Roselore Sonntag Roselore Sonntag (née Stöbe, 6 February 1934) is a retired German gymnast. She competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and finished in sixth place with the German team. Individually her best achievement was 21st place in the balance beam. Between 1954 and 1960 she won 10 national titles, competing as Stöbe before 1957. After retirement she had a long career as a gymnastics coach.