Pozdnyakov called his daughter’s decision to return his maiden name a Father’s Day gift

Head of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Stanislav Pozdnyakov told that his daughter’s decision to return her maiden name was a gift to him.

October 16, double Olympic saber fencing champion Sofia Pozdniakova reported that she had returned her maiden name.

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“This (the girl’s decision to return her maiden name – ) was the child’s most important gift for this holiday,” Pozdnyakov told .

Sofia Pozdnyakova was married to Russian fencer Konstantin Lokhanov from September 2020 to September 2022. In 2022, Lokhanov moved to the United States.

Earlier, Stanislav Pozdnyakov publicly supported his daughter’s decision to break up with Lokhanov and called his former son-in-law a “scared lover of raspberry strikes.”