Olga Nazarova

Olga Nazarova

Medal record
Women's athletics
Olympic Games
	1988 Seoul	4x400 m relay
	1992 Barcelona	4x400 m relay
	1988 Seoul	400 m
World Championships
	1991 Tokyo	4x400 m relay
	1987 Rome	4x400 m relay

Olga Nazarova (Russian: Ольга Назарова) (born 1 June 1965) is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She represented the Soviet Union.

She competed for the Soviet Union in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul in the 400m where she won the bronze medal. She then joined with gold medalist Olga Bryzgina, 400m hurdles silver medalist Tatyana Ledovskaya and fellow Soviet Mariya Pinigina to win gold in the 4 x 400m relay. That USSR relay team set a new world record of 3:15.17 minutes which is still unbeaten (as of 2013).^[1]

She returned to compete for the Commonwealth of Independent States in the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, finishing fourth in the 400m final. In the 4 x 400 metres, she won the gold medal with Olga Bryzgina who had this time won the silver medal in the 400m, Yelena Ruzina and Lyudmila Dzhigalova.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Soviet Union
1986	European Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	semi-final	400 m
			DISQ	4x400 m
1987	World Indoor Championships	Indianapolis, United States	4th	400 m
	World Championships	Rome, Italy	8th	400 m	51.20
			2nd	4x400 m	3:19.50
1988	Olympic Games	Seoul, South Korea	3rd	400 m	49.90
			1st	4x400 m	3:15.92 WR
1991	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	1st	4x400 m	3:18.43
1992	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	4th	400 m	49.69
			1st	4x400 m	3:20.20

Note: The Soviet Union originally finished 2nd in the 4 x 400m at the 1986 European Championships, before being disqualified for a lane infringement.

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