Anastasia Pozdniakova

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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.

Anastasia Pozdnyakova
Personal information
Full nameAnastasia Yuryevna Pozdnyakova
Born (1985-12-11) 11 December 1985 (age 38)
Elektrostal, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height155 cm (5 ft 1 in)
Sport
CountryRussia
Event(s)3m, 3m synchro
College teamUniversity of Houston
PartnerYulia Pakhalina
Coached byJane Figueiredo
Medal record
Women's Diving
Representing  Russia
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing 3 m synchro
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Rome 3 m synchro
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2008 Eindhoven 3 m synchro
Silver medal – second place 2010 Budapest 3 m springboard
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Budapest 1 m springboard

Biography

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She 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

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  1. ^ a b "Ex-UH diver competes for Russia with new mindset". Chron.
  2. ^ a b c d Dunn, David (February 23, 2022). "Five Minutes With… Anastasia Pozdniakova". Southlake Style.
  3. ^ "Hall of Honor"
  4. ^ a b c "Cougar grabs Gold at Aquatics competition in Rome". ssl.uh.edu.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Anastasia Pozdniakova (2021) - University of Houston Athletics Hall of Honor". University of Houston Athletics.
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