She finished fourth at the 2003 World Championships.
Following a personal best time of 49.65 seconds run a fortnight earlier, Natalya had lost form by the start of the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and only just made the final finishing 8th. She did get a silver in the relay. On January 8, Natalya Nazarova broke the sixteen-year-old indoor world record for the rarely run 500 m in a time of 1:07.36. that had been set by Olga Nazarova (no relation).
1998 in world record 3:23.88 in national record 49.68 son