Anna Kozlova
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| Full name | Anna A. Kozlova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Soviet Union Russia United States
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30 December 1972 St. Petersburg, Soviet Union |
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Synchronized swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Santa Clara Aquamaids | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anna Kozlova (born 30 December 1972) is a former synchronized swimmer who competed in three Olympic Games. After competing in the 1992 Summer Olympics and winning four European Championships representing the Soviet Union and its successor organizations, she defected to the United States in 1993. After missing the 1996 Atlanta Games due to a five-year wait to receive U.S. citizenship, she competed for her new country in Sydney, where her best placing was fourth. She went on to win gold medals in the Pan-American Games in 2003, before returning to her third and final Olympics in Athens, where she won two bronze medals.
Kozlova was born in St. Petersburg, RFSFR, Soviet Union on December 30, 1972, the daughter of a mathematics professor and a swimming instructor.
Kozlova's first international competition was at the 1989 World Cup in Paris, where although she failed to win a medal, she would later credit her impression of the American team at that competition as influencing her 1993 decision to defect to the United States.
Kozlova found success in two international competitions in 1991. At the World Cup in Bonn, she won a bronze medal with the Soviet team, and at 1991 European Aquatics Championships in Athens, she paired with Olga Sedakova to win the gold medal in the duet routine competition. The Soviet team also captured the team gold medal. Following the breakup of the Soviet Union, twelve of the former Soviet Republics chose to compete together at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona as the Unified Team. Kozlova was chosen to compete in both competitions contested, solo and duet, the duet again with Sedakova.
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