Dmitri Posdnyakov

Dmitri Posdnyakov
Full name	Dmitri Anatolyevich Posdnyakov Дмитрий Анатольевич Поздняков
Association	Kazakhstan
birthday	July 6, 1972
place of birth	Zelinograd ,  Soviet Union
Career
society	Dinamo
Debut in the World Cup	1994
status	resigned
End of career	2004
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	79th ( 1997/98 )

Dmitri Anatoljewitsch Posdnjakow ( Russian Дмитрий Анатольевич Поздняков ; born  July 6, 1972 in Zelinograd , then the Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Kazakh biathlete .

Dmitri Posdnyakov started for Dinamo and lives in Zerendi in the Aqmola area . He is the coach of the Kazakh national biathlon team. Posdnjakow made his debut in the Biathlon World Cup in 1994 as 99th in the individual in Ruhpolding , the first points he won as 24th of the sprint in Novosibirsk in the 1996/1997 season . This was also his best result in the World Cup, mostly he was placed in the back third of the field. His first major event was the 1995 biathlon world championships in Antholz , where Posdnjakow was used in the relay and was 15th with Valeri Ivanov , Alexander Menschtschikow and Dmitri Pantov . At the 1997 World Championships in Osrblie , the Kazakh was used in all five competitions, the best results he achieved together with Ivanov, Sergei Abdukarow and Pantow in the relay in 18th place and in the team competition in eleventh place. In the individual competitions he was 70th in the individual, 31st in the sprint and 41st in the pursuit. The highlight of his career was his participation in the 1998 Winter Olympics . In his three starts, 24th place in the sprint was the outstanding result thanks to faultless shooting performance, 59th place in the individual was within his possibilities and in the line-up Pantow, Posdnjakow, Menschtschikow and Ivanov he came in sixteen with the relay. At the Winter Asian Games in 1999 he won the relay and was second in the sprint and individual. Also in 2001 Posdnyakov started at the World Championships, in Pokljuka he was 89th in the sprint and three years later at the World Championships , in addition to 79th place in the sprint, he achieved another remarkable placement at the end of his career with the 41st place in the individual.

Biathlon World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

• 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline

placement	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring		2			2	8th	12
Starts	23	30th	3		2	9	67
Status : data may not be complete

Web links

• Dmitry Pozdnyakov in the database of the IBU (English)
• Dmitri Posdnjakow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Profile on biathlon.com.ua (Russian / English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Лыжный сайт г. Щучинска ( Russian ) Retrieved November 2, 2010.