Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Fencing - Women's Individual Sabre - Medal Ceremony - Makuhari Messe Hall B, Chiba, Japan - July 26, 2021. Gold medallist Sofia Pozdniakova of the Russian Olympic Committee celebrates on the podium REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
TOKYO (Reuters) - Stanislav Pozdnyakov, the head of Russia's Olympic Committee, praised his daughter Sofia Pozdniakova after she added to the family legacy on Monday by claiming the gold medal in the women's individual sabre event at the Tokyo Olympics.
Pozdnyakov, a five-time Olympic medallist in fencing who won the sabre individual event at the 1996 Atlanta Games, called the moment an important date in his family's history.
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