Andrei Nazarov (athlete)

Andrei Nazarov (born January 9, 1965 in Tallinn) is a retired decathlete, who competed for the Soviet Union and later for his native country Estonia. His personal best in the men's decathlon was 8322 points, achieved in 1987 (Sochi).

This article is about the Estonian decathlete. For the Russian ice hockey player of the same name, see Andrei Nazarov.

Achievements
Year Competition Venue Position Notes
Representing the  Soviet Union
1990 European Championships Split, Yugoslavia 8th 8072 pts
Representing  Estonia
1992 Olympic Games Barcelona, Spain 14th 8052 pts
1994 European Championships Helsinki, Finland 11th 7894 pts
1995 World Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 10th 8088 pts
1996 Olympic Games Atlanta, United States — DNF

Coaching

After retiring as a decathlete, Nazarov started coaching. He has coached decathlete Erki Nool and heptathlete Larisa Netšeporuk.[1] As of 2009, he coaches long jumper and sprinter Ksenija Balta, long jumper Tõnis Sahk, triple jumper Lauri Leis, and decathlete Indrek Turi.[2]

gollark: No it's not.
gollark: It could do *something* like that if it has sufficient memory during its runtime.
gollark: It cannot actually alter itself even though it can think about doing so.
gollark: Now imagine that it doesn't have any way to write to its own weights/source code but just gets given some inputs and outputs a probability distribution.
gollark: Imagine some hypothetical AI (actually not that hypothetical, they basically all work this way outside of training) which can think about and model itself.

References
  1. "Treener Nazarov: Netšeporuk esines normaalselt | Õhtuleht". sport.ohtuleht.ee.
  2. "Nazarovi ja Nazaroviene duell vürtsitab kergejõustikuelu | Õhtuleht". sport.ohtuleht.ee.
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