Natalya Nazarova

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Natalya Nazarova

File:Natalya Nazarova (Russia 4 x 400 m women Doha 2010, cropped).jpg

Nazarova at the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha.

Personal information

Born

May 26, 1979 (age 45)^[1]^[2]
Moscow

Height

1.71 m (5 ft 71⁄2 in)

Weight

61 kg (134 lb)

Sport

Country

File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia

Sport

Women's athletics

Event

4 × 400 metres relay

Medal record

Olympic Games

Silver medal – second place	2004 Athens	4 × 400 m
Bronze medal – third place	2000 Sydney	4 × 400 m
Disqualified	2012 London	4 × 400 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place	1999 Seville	4 × 400 m
Silver medal – second place	2003 Paris	4 × 400 m
Disqualified	2009 Berlin	4 × 400 m
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place	1999 Maebashi	4 × 400 m
Gold medal – first place	2003 Birmingham	400 m
Gold medal – first place	2003 Birmingham	4 × 400 m
Gold medal – first place	2004 Budapest	400 m
Gold medal – first place	2004 Budapest	4 × 400 m
Gold medal – first place	2006 Moscow	4 × 400 m
Gold medal – first place	2008 Valencia	4 × 400 m
Silver medal – second place	2008 Valencia	400 m
Disqualified	2010 Doha	4 × 400 m

Natalya Viktorovna Nazarova (Russian: Наталья Викторовна Назарова, born May 26, 1979, Moscow) is a track and field sprinter. She was born in Moscow. Following a personal best time of 49.65 seconds run a fortnight earlier, Natalya had lost form by the start of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and only just made the final finishing 8th. She won a silver medal in the relay run and finished fourth at the 2003 World Championships. On January 8, 2004 Natalya Nazarova broke the sixteen-year-old indoor world record for the rarely run 500 metres in a time of 1:07.36, that had been set by Olga Nazarova (no relation).

Major achievements

1998
- World Junior Championships - Annecy, France.
  - 400 m gold medal
  - 4 × 400 m relay silver medal
1999
- World Championships - Seville, Spain.
  - 4 × 400 m relay gold medal
- World Indoor Championships - Maebashi, Japan.
  - 4 × 400 m relay gold medal
2000
- European Indoor Championships - Ghent, Belgium.
  - 400 m silver medal
2002
- Russian Championships - Cheboksary.
  - 400 m silver medal
2003
- World Championships - Paris, France.
  - 4 × 400 m relay silver medal
- World Indoor Championships - Birmingham, England.
  - 400 m gold medal
  - 4 × 400 m relay gold medal
- Russian Championships - Tula.
  - 400 m gold medal
- Russian Indoor Championships
  - 400 m gold medal
2004
- World Indoor Championships - Budapest, Hungary.
  - 400 m gold medal
  - 4 × 400 m relay gold medal in world record 3:23.88
- Russian Championships - Tula.
  - 400 m gold medal
- Russian Indoor Championships
  - 400 m gold medal in national record 49.68 s.
2006
- World Indoor Championships - Moscow, Russia.
  - 4 × 400 m relay gold medal