About Stanislav Pozdnyakov
Stanislav Alekseyevich Pozdnyakov is a Russian former fencer, five-time Olympian (1992–2008), and five-time Olympic medalist in individual and team sabre competitions who previously served as president of the Russian Olympic Committee from 2018 to 2024. He is also a ten-time individual and team world champion, in 1994–2007. In 2022, he was removed from his position as European Fencing Confederation (EFC) president at an Extraordinary Congress following a unanimous vote of no confidence in Pozdnyakov, due to his conduct in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Pozdnyakov's former son-in-law Konstantin Lokhanov won two world junior championships in sabre, and fenced in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. In his career, Pozdnyakov won the World Fencing Championships individual event five times, and the team event five times. She won the gold medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Women's Individual Sabre event. In 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, now competing for Russia, he again won gold in the team event, and added his third gold in the individual event.
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