Anastasia Pozdniakova
Appearance
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Full name | Anastasia Urevna Pozdniakova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Elektrostal, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | December 11, 1985||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 155 cm (5 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 3m, 3m synchro | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Partner | Yulia Pakhalina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Anastasia Urevna Pozdniakova (Russian: Анастасия Юрьевна Позднякова; born December 11, 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.
Pozdniakova lives in Houston, Texas, United States and competes for the University of Houston's diving team. In February 2009, Pozdniakova 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.[1]
Currently a redshirt junior, Pozdniakova has competed on the Houston Cougars diving team since 2004. She is currently coaching at Spring Branch ISD in Houston, TX.
References
- ^ UH Cougars (February 7, 2009). "Diving's Pozdniakova Named C-USA Diver of the Week - This is Pozdniakova's 11th-Career Weekly Honor". UH Cougars.
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- Living people
- People from Elektrostal
- Russian female divers
- Olympic divers of Russia
- Divers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Russia
- University of Houston alumni
- Olympic medalists in diving
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- World Aquatics Championships medalists
- Russian Olympic medalist stubs
- European diving (sport) biography stubs
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