Tatyana Pozdnyakova (born 4 March 1955[1] in Sosnovo-Ozerskoye, Buryatia, USSR) is a Ukrainian, former Soviet athlete, known for her performance in marathons.

As early as 1981, she was part of the gold medal winning Soviet team at the World Cross Country Championships, which she repeated in 1982.

She also participated in 1989 and 1990 but was not a scoring member of the silver and gold medal winning Soviet teams.

In 1998, at the age of 43, she reemerged in the Chicago Marathon, finishing 5th amongst an elite field, wearing a 5 digit number.

[7] Then 2 days before her 48th birthday she returned to Los Angeles and ran 2:29:40 before a national television audience to take first place overall.