Valeri Liukin

Liukin was the first gymnast to land a triple back salto on floor in competition, in 1987, a skill that took men's tumbling into new territory, and his high bar release work was just as ambitious. He won Olympic team and high bar gold at Seoul 1988. As coach of his daughter Nastia, the 2008 Olympic all-around champion, he passed that technical ambition on to women's bars and beam, where she too has skills named after her.