Remigija Nazarovienė

Remigija Nazaroviene
Personal information
Full name Remigija Nazaroviene
Born 2 June 1967
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Height 179 cm (70 in)[1]
Weight 68 kg (150 lb)[2]

Remigija Nazarovienė (née Sablovskaitė) (born 2 June 1967 in Ashkabad, Turkmen SSR) is a retired Lithuanian heptathlete. She won the bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships and finished third at the 1998 IAAF World Combined Events Challenge. She won Talence Decastar two times, 1996 and 1997. She was also a runner-up in Talence 1989 and 1998. She competed four times at the Olympic Games. She currently owns Lithuanian national record in heptathlon with 6604 points. She also owned national records in 100m hurdles and 60m hurdles.

After retirement as heptathlete, she started coaching in Estonia. In 2009, her student, decathlete Mikk Pahapill, won European Indoor Championships in heptathlon.

Achievements

Year Tournament Venue Result Event Points
Representing  Soviet Union
1985 European Junior Championships Cottbus, Germany 4th Heptathlon 5693
1987 Lithuanian SSR Championships Vilnius, Lithuania 1st Heptathlon 6241
1988 Soviet Union Championships Perm, Russia 3rd Pentathlon 4561
Soviet Union Championships Kiev, Ukraine 1st Heptathlon 6566
Olympic Games Seoul, South Korea 5th Heptathlon 6456
1989 European Cup Super League Helmond, Netherlands 2nd Heptathlon 6600
Soviet Union Championships Bryansk, Russia 2nd Heptathlon 6604
Decastar Talence, France 2nd Heptathlon 6375
1990 Lithuanian SSR Championships Vilnius, Lithuania 1st Heptathlon 6252
European Championships Split, Yugoslavia 6th Heptathlon 6380
Representing  Lithuania
1992 Lithuanian Championships Vilnius, Lithuania 1st Heptathlon 6513
Olympic Games Barcelona, Spain 14th Heptathlon 6141
1994 European Cup Second League Tallinn, Estonia 1st Heptathlon 6014
European Championships Helsinki, Finland 7th Pentathlon 6262
1995 World Championships Göteborg, Sweden 17th Heptathlon 6026
1996 Hypo-Meeting Götzis, Austria 6th Heptathlon 6282
Olympic Games Atlanta, Georgia, USA 10th Heptathlon 6254
Decastar Talence, France 1st Heptathlon 6451
1997 World Championships Athens, Greece 3rd Heptathlon 6566
Decastar Talence, France 1st Heptathlon 6536
1998 Hypo-Meeting Götzis, Austria DNF Heptathlon -
Goodwill Games New York, USA 4th Heptathlon 6346
European Championships Budapest, Hungary 4th Heptathlon 6394
Decastar Talence, France 2nd Heptathlon 6313
IAAF World Combined Events Challenge IAAF 3rd Heptathlon 19 053
1999 World Indoor Championships Maebashi, Japan 4th Pentathlon 4505
World Championships Seville, Spain 8th Heptathlon 6262
2002 Lithuanian Championships Kaunas, Lithuania 1st Heptathlon 6005

Personal bests

Outdoors

Event Result Time Place
100 meters hurdles 13,15 14 September 1996 Talence
High Jump 1,86 10 June 1989 Bryansk
Shot Put 16,22 13 June 1988 Kaunas
200 meters 23,79 14 September 1996 Talence
Long Jump 6,58 11 June 1989 Bryansk
Javelin Throw 48,20 15 September 1997 Talence
800 meters 2,09.26 16 July 1989 Helmond
Heptathlon6604 10–11 June 1989 Bryansk

Indoors

Event Result Time Place
60 meters hurdles 8,20 7 March 1997 Paris
Pentathlon4641 1988 -

Coaching

After retirement as a heptathlete, Remigija Nazarovienė started coaching in Estonia. She currently coaches Mikk Pahapill. She has coached also decathletes Andres Raja, Mikk-Mihkel Arro, Artur Liiv and heptathletes Kaie Kand, Ksenija Balta, Ebe Reier, Berit Jürgenson.

Decathlete Mikk Pahapill won European Indoor Championships in 2009 and heptathlete Ksenija Balta won Bronze medal at the European Junior Championships in 2005.[3]

Personal life

Her father was a javelin thrower with the result of 78,32. Mother was 12,0 100m performer. Her son Deividas is currently playing basketball.

Nazarovienė was married to Andrei Nazarov, an Estonian decathlete who finished tenth at the 1995 World Championships.[4]

Honorary awards

1. Badge of Merit from Lithuanian President Algirdas Brazauskas

2. Voted as a best Estonian female athletics coach in 2006

3. Estonian Ministry of Culture award in 2008

References

  1. "decathlon2000"
  2. "decathlon2000"
  3. www.ohtuleht.ee
  4. www.iaaf.org

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