Remigija Nazarovienė (née Sablovskaitė; born 2 June 1967 in

Ashkabad Ashgabat or Asgabat ( tk, Aşgabat, ; fa, عشق‌آباد, translit='Ešqābād, formerly named Poltoratsk ( rus, Полтора́цк, p=pəltɐˈratsk) between 1919 and 1927), is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies ...

Turkmen SSR Turkmen, Türkmen, Turkoman, or Turkman may refer to: Peoples Historical ethnonym * Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages Ethnic groups * Turkmen in Anatolia and the Levant (Seljuk and Ottoman-Turkish desc ...

) is a retired

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 ...

heptathlete A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...

. She won the bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships and finished third at the 1998

IAAF World Combined Events Challenge The World Athletics Combined Events Tour (formerly IAAF Combined Events Challenge and World Athletics Challenge – Combined Events) is an annual series of combined track and field events meetings, organised since 1998 by World Athletics, with he ...

. She won the Talence Decastar twice, in 1996 and 1997, and was runner-up in 1989 and 1998. She competed at three consecutive

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

(1988 to 1996), three consecutive

World Championships in Athletics The World Athletics Championships (until 2019 known as the World Championships in Athletics) are a biennial athletics competition organized by World Athletics (formerly IAAF, International Association of Athletics Federations). Alongside the Ol ...

(1995 to 1999), ad four straight editions of the

European Athletics Championships The European Athletics Championships is a biennial (from 2010) athletics event organised by the European Athletics Association and is recognised as the elite continental outdoor athletics championships for Europe. Editions First held, for men ...

(1990 to 2002). She holds the Lithuanian national record in heptathlon with 6604 points, and also held national records in the 100 m and 60 m hurdles. After retirement as a heptathlete, she started coaching in Estonia. In 2009, her student, decathlete

Mikk Pahapill Mikk Pahapill (born 18 July 1983) is a retired Estonian decathlete. His personal best score is 8398 points, achieved at the 2011 Hypo-Meeting in Götzis. His coach is Remigija Nazarovienė. He won the 2009 European Indoor Championships in hepta ...

, won the heptathlon at the European Indoor Championships.

International competitions

National championships

Personal bests

Outdoors

Indoors

Coaching

After her retirement as a heptathlete, Remigija Nazarovienė started coaching in

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

. She currently coaches

. She has coached also decathletes Andres Raja,

Mikk-Mihkel Arro Mikk-Mihkel Arro (born 28 March 1984) is an Estonian decathlete The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκ� ...

, Artur Liiv and heptathletes

Kaie Kand Kaie Kand (born 31 March 1984 in Orissaare) is a retired Estonian heptathlete. Her personal best score is 5979 points, achieved in May 2009 in Götzis. In 2009, she set an Estonian national indoor record in the pentathlon (4580 points). Her coach ...

Ksenija Balta Ksenija Balta (born 1 November 1986) is an Estonian long jumper, sprinter and heptathlete. She won the long jump at the 2009 European Indoor Championships in Athletics. Career Balta finished 14th in pentathlon at the 2005 European Indoor Champ ...

, Ebe Reier, Berit Jürgenson. Decathlete

won European Indoor Championships in 2009 and heptathlete

won bronze medal at the European Junior Championships in 2005.

Personal life

Her father was a javelin thrower with the result of 78.32 m, and her mother was 12.0-second 100 m performer. Her son Deividas is currently playing basketball. Nazarovienė was married to

Andrei Nazarov Andrei Viktorovich Nazarov (russian: Андрей Викторович Назаров; born May 22, 1974) is a Russian former professional ice hockey player and head coach of HC Sochi of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He has formerly manage ...

, an

n decathlete who finished tenth at the 1995 World Championships.www.iaaf.org
/ref> She is the sister-in-law of Lithuanian discus thrower

Virgilijus Alekna Virgilijus Alekna (; 13 February 1972) is a Lithuanian former discus thrower and politician. He won medals at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics, including two golds. After retiring from athletics, Alekna was elected to the national parliament, t ...

Honorary awards

*Badge of Merit from Lithuanian President

Algirdas Brazauskas Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas (, 1932 – 2010) was the first President (fourth overall) of a newly re-independent post-Soviet Lithuania from 1993 to 1998 and Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006. He also served as head of the Communist Party of Li ...

*Voted as a best Estonian female athletics coach in 2006 *Estonian Ministry of Culture award in 2008

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nazaroviene, Remigija 1967 births Living people Sportspeople from Ashgabat Lithuanian heptathletes Soviet heptathletes Lithuanian athletics coaches Estonian athletics coaches Olympic athletes for Lithuania Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Lithuania World Athletics Championships medalists Competitors at the 1998 Goodwill Games Turkmenistan people of Lithuanian descent Soviet Athletics Championships winners