Anastassija Yuryevna Posdnyakova

Anastasija Posdnyakova
Personal information
Surname:	Anastassija Yuryevna Posdnyakova
Nationality:	Russia
Discipline (s) :	Artistic / synchronized jumping
Society:	Houston Cougars
Birthday:	December 11, 1985
Place of birth:	Elektrostal
Size:	155 cm
Weight:	47 kg

Anastassija Jurjewna Posdnjakowa ( Russian Анастасия Юрьевна Позднякова ; born December 11, 1985 in Elektrostal ) is a Russian diver . It starts in the disciplines of artificial jumping from the 1 m and 3 m board and in 3 m synchronized jumping.

Posdnyakova took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 and won the silver medal in the 3 m synchronized competition together with Julija Pachalina . In the same year they won gold together at the 2008 European Championships in Eindhoven and a year later bronze at the 2009 World Championships in Rome . Her first individual medal reached Posdnjakowa at the European Championships in Budapest in 2010 , where she won bronze from the 1 m board and silver from the 3 m board. Together with Swetlana Filippowa , she was also third in the 3 m synchronized competition.

Posdnyakova lives and studies in the USA at the University of Houston . She starts for the university's sports team, the Houston Cougars .

Web links

• Anastassija Jurjewna Posdnjakowa in the Olympedia.org database (English)
• Results overview on the-sports.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Houston Cougars Diving Team. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 7, 2011 ; accessed on March 29, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.