Career
Nazarov qualified for the men"s 200 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, by clearing a B-standard entry time of 1:52.49 from the Russia Open Swimming Championships in Saint St. Petersburg. He challenged six other swimmers on the second heat, including Olympic veterans Mahrez Mebarek of Algeria and Andrei Zaharov of Moldova. Nazarov raced to sixth place by four seconds behind Kazakhstan"s Artur Dilman in a time of 1:56.27.
Nazarov failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed fifty-fourth overall in the prelims.
