Olga Nazarova

Medal record
Women's athletics
Olympic Games
Gold	1988 Seoul	4x400 m relay
Gold	1992 Barcelona	4x400 m relay
Bronze	1988 Seoul	400 m
World Championships
Gold	1991 Tokyo	4x400 m relay
Silver	1987 Rome	4x400 m relay

Olga Nazarova (Russian: Ольга Назарова) (born 1 June 1965) is a retired athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She represented the Soviet Union.

She competed for the USSR in the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea in the 400m where she won the bronze medal. She then joined with gold medalist Olga Bryzgina, 400m hurdles silver medalist Tatyana Ledovskaya and fellow Soviet Marina Pinigina to win gold in the 4 x 400m relay. That USSR relay team set a new world record of 3:15.17 minutes which is still unbeaten (as of 2006^[update]).^[1]

She returned to compete for the Commonwealth of Independent States in the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain in the 4 x 400 metres where she won the gold medal with Olga Bryzgina who had this time won the silver medal in the 400m, Yelena Ruzina and Lyudmila Dzhigalova.

References

1. ^ "Athletics - World Record progression". International Olympic Committee. http://www.olympic.org/common/asp/download_report.asp?file=en_report_139.pdf&id=139. Retrieved September 12, 2006. 

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Name	Nazarova, Olga
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Date of birth	1 June 1965
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