Olympic champion Nastia Liukin dishes on surprising revelation from AncestryDNA test

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Nastia Liukin was a teenager when she was a part of the United States women’s gymnastics team and won gold in the all-around competition during the 2008 Olympics.

She picked up silver medals in the team, uneven bars and balance beam competitions and a bronze medal in the floor exercise. In 2005, she won gold in the uneven bars and the balance beam at the World Championships in Melbourne.

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Nastia Liukin at the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards from Ford Center at The Star on May 11, 2023, in Frisco, Texas. (Gilbert Flores/Penske Media via Getty Images)

Liukin, who is now retired from the sport, always knew that talent and hard work were keys to her success, but was it also something genetic?

Liukin was among the 15 world-class athletes who partnered with Ancestry to take the AncestryDNA test to see whether their genetics may have influenced their athleticism. Some of the key findings included that Liukin is more flexible, more agile, more motivated by others and more determined because of her genetics.

"For me, knowing that I had ‘good genes,’ we’re now being able to look at all the other traits you can have as a human. Not just for athletes, but for everyday," Liukin told Fox News Digital. "Not only are you able to compare it to other athletes, but just to know about it yourself, I feel like is really cool.

"For instance, I always known that I was flexible. I just didn’t know for sure if I was born with that or just something that I just had to work on. But turns out, I was born just naturally gifted with flexibility."

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