Remigija Nazarovienė

Remigija Nazaroviene

Personal information
Full name	Remigija Nazaroviene
Born	(1967-06-02) 2 June 1967 Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Height	179 cm (70 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Medal record Representing Lithuania Women's Athletics World Championships 1997 Athens Heptathlon

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
Heptathlon	6604	10–11 June 1989	Bryansk

Indoors

Event	Result	Time	Place
60 meters hurdles	8,20	7 March 1997	Paris
Pentathlon	4641	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.

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.

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

External links

• Remigija Nazarovienė profile at IAAF