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Full name
  
Remigija Nazaroviene

Role
  
Olympic athlete

Weight
  
68 kg

Name
  
Remigija Nazaroviene

Height
  
1.79 m

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Born
  
2 June 1967 (age 56) (
1967-06-02
)

Remigija nazaroviene 1997 bronze medal world championship athens


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.

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

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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

References

Remigija Nazarovienė Wikipedia