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 Yulia Pakhalina in the 3m Synchronized Springboard.
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Full name | Anastasia Yuryevna Pozdnyakova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1985-12-11) 11 December 1985 (age 36) 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Partner | Yulia Pakhalina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pozdnyakova lives in Houston, Texas, United States and competes for the University of Houston's diving team. 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.[1]
Currently a redshirt junior, Pozdnyakova has competed on the Houston Cougars diving team since 2004. She is currently coaching at Spring Branch ISD in Houston, TX.
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