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World Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	33	1
2018	Wuxi, CHN	1	2
2017	Leipzig, GER	16	5

European Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2019	Dusseldorf, GER	27	1
2018	Novi Sad, SRB	18	1
2017	Tbilisi, GEO	7	2

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2020/2021	1 x 7th	1 x 5th
2019/2020	1 x 5th, 1 x 6th, 1 x 12th	2 x 1st, 1 x 8th
2018/2019	1 x 1st, 1 x 5th, 1 x 10th	3 x 2nd, 1 x 6th, 1 x 8th
2017/2018	1 x 7th, 1 x 19th, 1 x 21st	2 x 1st, 1 x 4th, 1 x 5th
2016/2017	1 x 19th, 1 x 31st, 1 x 34th	1 x 5th

Grand Prix overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Sabre Individual
2019/2020	1 x 12th
2018/2019	1 x 3rd, 1 x 9th, 1 x 10th
2017/2018	1 x 13th, 1 x 19th, 1 x 26th
2016/2017	1 x 18th, 1 x 23rd

World Cup & Grand Prix - Ten best performances since 2016/2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2019/2020	Sabre Team	World Cup	Athens, GRE
1	2019/2020	Sabre Team	World Cup	Orleans, FRA
1	2018/2019	Sabre Individual	World Cup	Athens, GRE
1	2017/2018	Sabre Team	World Cup	Tunis, TUN
1	2017/2018	Sabre Team	World Cup	Orleans, FRA
2	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Sint-Niklaas, BEL
2	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Athens, GRE
2	2018/2019	Sabre Team	World Cup	Orleans, FRA
3	2018/2019	Sabre Individual	Grand Prix	Moscow, RUS
4	2017/2018	Sabre Team	World Cup	Sint-Niklaas, BEL

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	Sabre Individual	Sabre Team
2017	Plovdiv, BUL	11	1

Sonya, Pozdni (tass.ru, 24 Jul 2018)

Reading, studying foreign languages. (teamrussia.pro, 16 Apr 2018)

Armed Forces Athlete

Smolensk State Academy of Physical Education, Sport and Tourism, Russian Federation

Husband Konstantin Lokhanov

English, French, Russian

Central Sports Army Club [RUS] / Novosibirsk Regional Fencing Sports School of Olympic Reserve [RUS]

Dmitry Glotov [national], RUS; Sergey Stepankin [personal], RUS

Right (rusfencing.ru, 24 Jan 2021)

Her father Stanislav Pozdniakov competed in sabre fencing at five Olympic Games from 1992 to 2008, winning four gold medals and a bronze, as well as multiple world titles. He has also worked as a coach of the Russian national fencing team, served as vice-president of the Russian Fencing Federation, and in 2018 he was elected president of the Russian Olympic Committee. Her husband Konstantin Lokhanov has represented the Russian Federation in fencing and won gold medals in the individual sabre at the World Junior Championships in 2017 and 2018. Her younger sister Anna Pozdniakova has represented the Russian Federation in 3x3 basketball, and won gold at the 2018 U23 World Cup in Xian, People's Republic of China. (russiabasket.ru, 07 Oct 2018; teamrussia.pro, 02 Oct 2018; interfax.ru, 29 May 2018; saratov-olimp.ru, 07 Apr 2018)

2017 for Russian Federation (Athlete, 28 Jul 2018)

She has torn cruciate ligaments twice during her career, and was out of action for significant periods of time on both occasions. (tass.ru, 24 Jul 2018; vesti.ru, 17 Oct 2013)

She began fencing at age 10 in Novosibirsk, Russian Federation. (rusfencing.ru, 19 Jun 2018; cska.ru, 28 Mar 2017)

After doing swimming and acrobatics, she switched to fencing. She chose sabre because it was not possible to do foil or epee fencing where she lived. (cska.ru, 28 Mar 2017)

To win a gold medal at the Olympic Games. (Athlete, 28 Jul 2018)

Russian fencer [and her father] Stanislav Pozdniakov, Russian Greco-Roman wrestler Roman Vlasov. (Athlete, 28 Jul 2018)

Coaches Christian Bauer, Alexander Shirshov, Sergey Stepankin, and her family. (Athlete, 28 Jul 2018)

"Never back down." (Instagram profile, 26 Jan 2021)

She has received the title of Honoured Master of Sport in the Russian Federation. (rusfencing.ru, 24 Jan 2021; Athlete, 05 Jun 2019)