Regina Chistyakova (née Nyderytė; born 7 November 1961) is a Lithuanian former distance runner, who competed at distances from 1500 metres up to 10,000 metres.Regina Chistyakova. Track and Field Statistics. Retrieved 2020-03-13. Her highest individual honours were three bronze medals in the 3000 metres at the 1986 Goodwill Games, 1986 European Athletics Indoor Championships, and the 1989 Summer Universiade.Goodwill Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-13.World Student Games (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-13.European Indoor Championships (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
She helped the Soviet women's team to three straight titles at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships between 1988 and 1990, teaming with Yelena Romanova, Marina Rodchenkova, Olga Bondarenko, Nadezhda Stepanova, and Natalya Sorokivskaya among others. She also helped the Soviets win the Yokohama International Women's Ekiden in 1988 and 1990. At national level, she was the Soviet national champion in the 3000 m in 1986.Soviet Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
She later went on to win four distance running titles at the Lithuanian Athletics Championships and was twice 3000 m champion at the Lithuanian Indoor Athletics Championships.Lithuanian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-13.Lithuanian Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-13. She competed internationally for Lithuania at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics, the 1994 European Cross Country Championships, 1995 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, and the 2009 World Masters Athletics Championships. She topped the field in the 1500 m and 3000 m for Lithuania in the C Final of the European Cup.European Cup C Final. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
Chistyakova was born in Tytuvėnai in the Lithuanian SSR of the Soviet Union, one of nine children in her family. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in physical education from the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences in 1993. She married fellow athlete Alexander Chistiakov and has a son, also called Alexander. A resident of Vilnius, she was a long-list candidate for the Order and Justice Party in the 2016 Seimas elections.Kandidatei Regina Chistyakova. vrk.lt. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
Among her outings on the professional circuit, she won the Cross der Vlaanderen in 1990, and the Silvesterlauf München and Neusser Sommernachtslauf in 1993. She had top three finishes at the Cross Zornotza and Brothers Znamensky Memorial meets.Regina Chistyakova. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved 2020-03-13. She holds the Baltic records and Lithuanian records for the outdoor 3000 m and indoor 5000 metres with her bests of 8:39.25 minutes and 15:49.06 minutes, respectively.Lithuanian Athletics Records. lengvoji.lt. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
International competitions 1986European Indoor ChampionshipsMadrid, Spain3rd3000 m9:01.72Goodwill GamesMoscow, Soviet Union3rd3000 m8:39.251988World Cross Country ChampionshipsAuckland, New Zealand7thSenior race19:411stTeam51 ptsYokohama International Women's EkidenYokohama, Japan1st5K (6th leg)16:291stTeam2:15:411989World Cross Country ChampionshipsStavanger, Norway27thSenior race23:361stTeam58 ptsUniversiadeDuisburg, West Germany3rd3000 m8:55.731990World Cross Country ChampionshipsAix-les-Bains, France13thSenior race19:521stTeam37 ptsYokohama International Women's EkidenYokohama, Japan2nd5K (6th leg)15:301stTeam2:16:411993European Cup C FinalCopenhagen, Denmark1st1500 m4:14.551st3000 m9:08.45World ChampionshipsStuttgart, Germany9th (heats)3000 m8:58.511994European CupValencia, Spain6th3000 m9:19.96European Cross Country ChampionshipsAlnwick, United Kingdom60thSenior race15:551995World Cross Country ChampionshipsDurham, United Kingdom57thSenior race21:472009World Masters ChampionshipsLahti, Finland5th5000 m18:54.1310th10,000 m40:02.37
National titles Soviet Athletics Championships 3000 m: 1986 Lithuanian Athletics Championships 1500 m: 1993 3000 m: 1991, 1993 Cross country long race: 1990 Lithuanian Indoor Athletics Championships 3000 m: 1991, 1995
See also List of European Athletics Indoor Championships medalists (women)
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