Regina Chistyakova (née Nyderytė; born 7 November 1961) is a

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

n former distance runner, who competed at distances from

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...

up to

10,000 metres The 10,000 metres or the 10,000-metre run is a common long-distance track running event. The event is part of the athletics programme at the Olympic Games and the World Athletics Championships, and is common at championship level events. The race ...

. Her highest individual honours were three bronze medals in the

3000 metres The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ...

at the

1986 Goodwill Games The 1986 Goodwill Games was the inaugural edition of the international multi-sport event created by Ted Turner, which was held from 5 – 20 July 1986. The main stadium was the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. The Game ...

1986 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 1986 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at the Palacio de los Deportes in Madrid, Spain, on 22 and 23 February 1986. The track used at the stadium at the time was 164 metres long.1989 Summer Universiade The 1989 Summer Universiade, also known as the XV Summer Universiade, took place in Duisburg, West Germany. Sports * * * * Venues Medal table {{UniversiadeGB Fencing coach / manager team Dr Ronald Moore 1989 U Sport in Duisburg U ...

. She helped the Soviet women's team to three straight titles at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships between 1988 and 1990, teaming with Yelena Romanova, Marina Rodchenkova,

Olga Bondarenko Olga Petrovna Bondarenko (née Krentser, russian: О́льга Петро́вна Бондаре́нко-Кренцер;Nadezhda Stepanova Nadezhda Stepanova (married name ''Nadezhda Galyamova'', russian: Надежда Степанова; born 22 July 1959) is a Russian former long-distance runner. Her sole international medals of note came at the 1989 IAAF World Cross Country Champ ...

, and

Natalya Sorokivskaya Natalya Sorokivskaya (russian: Наталья Сорокивская; born 23 July 1962) is a Kazakhstani female former long-distance runner who competed for the Soviet Union and later Kazakhstan. She competed in track, road and cross country r ...

among others. She also helped the Soviets win the Yokohama International Women's Ekiden in 1988 and 1990. At national level, she was the Soviet national champion in the 3000 m in 1986. She later went on to win four distance running titles at the Lithuanian Athletics Championships and was twice 3000 m champion at the Lithuanian Indoor Athletics Championships. She competed internationally for Lithuania at the

1993 World Championships in Athletics The 4th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Neckarstadium, Stuttgart, Germany between 13 and 22 August with the participation of 187 nations. Having ori ...

, the

1994 European Cross Country Championships The 1st European Cross Country Championships were held at Alnwick in England on 10 December 1994. Paulo Guerra took the title in the men's competition and Catherina McKiernan won the women's race. Results European Athletic Association: ''Statistic ...

1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships The 1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Durham, United Kingdom, at the University of Durham on 25 March 1995. A report on the event was given in ''The New York Times'' and in the Herald A herald, or a herald of ar ...

, and the 2009 World Masters Athletics Championships. She topped the field in the 1500 m and 3000 m for Lithuania in the C Final of the

European Cup The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competit ...

. Chistyakova was born in

Tytuvėnai Tytuvėnai () is a city in the Kelmė district municipality, Lithuania. It is located east of Kelmė. It is known for its Bernardine monastery. History The first church in the town was built in 1555. The construction of the monastery was initi ...

in the Lithuanian SSR of the Soviet Union, one of nine children in her family. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in physical education from the

Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences Vytautas Magnus University Education Academy ( lt, Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto Švietimo akademija or VDU ŠA) – an academical unit of Vytautas Magnus University, which specialized in preparing school teachers and other educators. Located i ...

in 1993. She married fellow athlete Alexander Chistiakov and has a son, also called Alexander. A resident of Vilnius, she was a long-list candidate for the

Order and Justice Party Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of ...

in the 2016 Seimas elections. Among her outings on the professional circuit, she won the Cross der Vlaanderen in 1990, and the Silvesterlauf München and Neusser Sommernachtslauf in 1993. She had top three finishes at the

Cross Zornotza The Cross Internacional Zornotza is an annual cross country running event which takes place in January in Amorebieta-Etxano (Zornotza), the Basque Country, Spain. The competition was first held in 1954 and has taken place every year since, with th ...

and

Brothers Znamensky Memorial The Brothers Znamensky Memorial (russian: Мемориал братьев Знаменских) is an annual track and field competition which is held at the Meteor Stadium in Zhukovsky, Russia. The event is held in memory of Seraphim and Georgy ...

meets.Regina Chistyakova

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. Retrieved 2020-03-13. She holds the Baltic records and Lithuanian records for the outdoor 3000 m and indoor

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with her bests of 8:39.25 minutes and 15:49.06 minutes, respectively.Lithuanian Athletics Records
lengvoji.lt. Retrieved 2020-03-13.

International competitions

National titles

Soviet Athletics Championships The Soviet Athletics Championships (russian: link=no, Чемпионат СССР по лёгкой атлетике) was an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Soviet Athletics Federation, which served as the Soviet natio ...

**3000 m:

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...

* Lithuanian Athletics Championships **1500 m:

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

**3000 m:

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

**Cross country long race:

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

* Lithuanian Indoor Athletics Championships **3000 m:

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chistyakova, Regina 1961 births Living people People from Kelmė District Municipality Soviet female middle-distance runners Soviet female long-distance runners Lithuanian female middle-distance runners Lithuanian female long-distance runners World Athletics Championships athletes for Lithuania Soviet female cross country runners Lithuanian female cross country runners FISU World University Games bronze medalists for the Soviet Union Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Medalists at the 1989 Summer Universiade Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games Goodwill Games medalists in athletics Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences alumni Soviet Athletics Championships winners

International competitions

National titles

See also

References

External links