WOGA Gymnastics (World Olympic Gymnastics Academy) is a competitive gymnastics club based in Plano, Texas, founded by former Soviet and Romanian national-level coaches Valeri Liukin and Evgeny Marchenko. The club has produced Olympic all-around champions in consecutive Games, Carly Patterson in 2004 and Nastia Liukin, Valeri Liukin's daughter, in 2008, and it is regarded as one of the leading women's artistic gymnastics development programs in the United States.
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In 1994, WOGA was established by Yevgeny Marchenko, a World Sports acrobatic champion who guided Carly Patterson to her gold medal, and Valeri Liukin, a Soviet Olympic winner from 1988 who later worked as coordinator for the USA Gymnastics women's national team.
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