Anastasia Pozdniakova

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
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
Medal record
Women's Diving
Representing  Russia
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing3m Spring Synchro
World Championships
2009 Rome 3m Spring Synchro
European Championships
2008 Eindhoven 3 m spring synchro
2010 Budapest 3 m springboard
2010 Budapest 1 m springboard

Biography

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
  1. "Ex-UH diver competes for Russia with new mindset". Chron.
  2. Dunn, David (February 23, 2022). "Five Minutes With… Anastasia Pozdniakova". Southlake Style.
  3. "Hall of Honor"
  4. "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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