Stanislav Alekseevich Pozdnyakov Biography
At the Olympics, Pozdnyakov won two gold medals - he took a new peak to Pozdnyakov - in Cape Town South Africa, he first became the world champion in his personal championship. And in the pre -Olympic m for the fourth time he became the owner of the World Cup, repeating the record of the Hungarian Sabbiste Imre Gedarovy. The Wengra record Stanislav beat a year later in the most acute rivalry with his team comrade Sergei Sharikov.
For two, they won 7 tournaments: Pozdnyakov - 4, Sharikov - 3. And at the pre -Olympic championship of Europe in the Portuguese city of Funchal, Russian sabers occupied in personal competitions the entire podium was the first - Sergey Sharykov, the second - Alexei Frosin, the third - Stanislav Pozdnyakov and won the command tournament. Naturally, only victories were expected from them in Sydney.
But in the team tournament, the Russians left no chance to the rivals and, sequentially beat the national Hungary - Romania -, and France - won gold medals. And Stanislav Pozdnyakov became a four -time Olympic champion! From Sydney Stanislav Pozdnyakov returned to the four -time Olympic champion! During this time, Stanislav won five gold medals of the world champion - in the personal championship - in the team and all eight !!!!
The more painful the Olympic failure was. In the personal championship, Pozdnyakov lost to Belarusus Dmitry Lapkes -, and in the team championship the Russian team almost left without awards. In the semifinals, the Russians lost to Italians - and in the meeting for third place with the US team before the last battle, the score was in favor of the Americans. But Pozdnyakov nevertheless managed to beat the whale of Smart with the necessary score, and literally took off the bronze medals from the shoulders of American sabers - in the years Stanislav won five of the six possible gold medals of the world champion in personal and command championship and all eight !!!!
And the coaches went to meet him, allowing him to prepare for competitions according to an individual plan. On this fourth anniversary, he won two more “gold” world champion and years, bringing the number of his personal victories in these tournaments to five. Thus, Pozdnyakov broke the record of his fellow countryman, another legendary Novosibirsk Sablicist Grigory Kiriyenko, who won this title four times.
But Stanislav failed to win the fifth Olympic “gold”. In his personal championship, he lost to the Frenchman Nicolas Lopez -, and in the team tournament the Russian team, having beaten the owners of the competition, Chinese -, twice lost to the minimum score, first of the US team, and then the Italian team, and took fourth place. Having won the first place at the World Cup in St.
Petersburg, Stanislav Pozdnyakov became the only five-time world champion in the personal champion in the personal fencing championship on the saber-having settled down from the path, Stanislav Pozdnyakov did not leave fencing. At first he took the post of state trainer of the Russian national team in this sport. A year later, he became the vice-president of the fencing Federation of Russia and the European Confederation of Fencing, which he headed in the year.
And in the summer of the year, the surname Pozdnyakova again appeared on the lists of world champions. At the tournament, which was held in the Chinese city, the gold medal in the personal championship was won by his summer daughter Sofia Pozdnyakova. Thus, she overtook her father - after all, Stanislav Pozdnyakov first became the world champion in the personal championship at 23.