Anastasia Yuryevna Pozdnyakova (Russian: Анастасия Юрьевна Позднякова; born 11 December 1985) is a Russian diver. Pozdniakova competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal with her partner Yuliya Pakhalina in the 3m Synchronized Springboard.
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| Full name | Anastasia Yuryevna Pozdnyakova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 December 1985 Elektrostal, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 155 cm (5 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 3m, 3m synchro | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Houston | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Partner | Yulia Pakhalina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Jane Figueiredo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
editShe is the daughter of Tatiana and Uriy Pozdniakova. She was born in the Moscow suburb of Elektrostal, in Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, in the Soviet Union.[1] She started diving when she was seven years old.[2]
Pozdnyakova lives in Houston, Texas, United States. She competed for the University of Houston's diving team as she attended the school as an art history major in 2006-10.[3][1] She was named the 2007 Conference USA 3-meter diving champion.[4] Pozdniakova competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics and won a silver medal with her partner Yuliya Pakhalina in the 3m Synchronized Springboard. She and Pakhalina won a silver medal in the 3-meter synchronized springboard at the 2008 World Cup.[4]
In February 2009, Pozdnyakova won her 11th-career Conference USA Diver of the Week honor, the fifth-most weekly honors won by an athlete in any C-USA sport and the most for any diver in C-USA history.[5] In April 2009, she was named the Conference-USA Diver of the Year, after winning the 1-meter event at the 2009 NCAA Championships.[4]
After graduating college she began coaching a junior diving club in Houston.[2] In 2014, she began coaching the diving team at Spring Branch ISD, where she coached for the next six years.[2] In 2021, she began coaching as the head coach at Carroll ISD in Houston.[2]
In 2021, she was inducted into the University of Houston Athletics Hall of Honor.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b "Ex-UH diver competes for Russia with new mindset". Chron.
- ^ a b c d Dunn, David (February 23, 2022). "Five Minutes With… Anastasia Pozdniakova". Southlake Style.
- ^ "Hall of Honor"
- ^ a b c "Cougar grabs Gold at Aquatics competition in Rome". ssl.uh.edu.
- ^ UH Cougars (February 7, 2009). "Diving's Pozdnyakova Named C-USA Diver of the Week - This is Pozdnyakova's 11th-Career Weekly Honor". UH Cougars. Archived from the original on February 14, 2009. Retrieved February 8, 2009.
- ^ "Anastasia Pozdniakova (2021) - University of Houston Athletics Hall of Honor". University of Houston Athletics.
External links
edit- UH Cougars profile Archived 2008-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
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