Vladimir Aliverovich Nazlymov (born November 1, 1945; Russian: Владимир Аливерович Назлымов) is a former sabre fencer, and coach for the USSR and later the United States, to which he moved in 1991, of Crimean Tatar origin.
He then coached in the United States, notably for Ohio State University, from which he retired in lieu of termination during an NCAA investigation that found him guilty of aggravated level I violations, sanctioned him, and vacated a number of records of the team and its members.
Nazlymov was born in Makhachkala, Daghestan, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, to a Crimean Tatar family.
[4] Nazlymov graduated from the Faculty of Physical Education of the Dagestan State Pedagogical Institute in 1969 as a teacher.
"[4] The Central Army Sports Club (ЦСКА)[12] in Moscow was a Soviet national team training facility.
He was named a coach for the U.S. 1999 Pan American Games and 1999 Senior World Championships teams.
[6][14] In the end of 1999, Nazlymov was hired by Ohio State University (OSU), after spending eight years as the fencing coach for the Kansas City, Missouri School District and establishing a private club in the Kansas City area (KCFC).
[21][22][17] Further, he violated ethical conduct rules, by ignoring several requests that had been made to him to cooperate with the NCAA investigation.
[23][17][24] It also found that under Nazlymov's direction, in addition 18 student fencers also received impermissible benefits worth over $8,000 in the form of free access to his local fencing club, resulting in them competing while ineligible.
The Ohio State fencing team was placed on four years of probation for NCAA violations committed between 2015 and 2019.
[3] Nazlymov's son, Vitali, attended Penn State University and won the 1991 individual NCAA saber championship.
[27][28] In December 2023, Phil Andrews, the CEO of USA Fencing, wrote to the International Fencing Federation that there was "likely to be improper officiating" of bouts involving Tatiana Nazlymov, and that video evidence indicated that calls made by two referees in bouts involving her demonstrated "a likely favoritism" toward her; in addition, in a letter to Tatiana that month he informed her that "we are aware of this alleged manipulation of the sport.
"[28][14] Her mother, Vladimir's daughter-in-law, wrote that "Tatiana is absolutely innocent and the cheating/matchfixing accusation is ridiculous.
[30] In 2016 in Russia, an order was given in the Republic of Dagestan, Makhachkala, by region Governor Ramazan Abdulatipov to create a fencing school named after Nazlymov.
[34] Nazlymov wrote the foreword to Foil, Saber, and Épée Fencing: Skills, Safety, Operations, and Responsibilities (1994) by Maxwell R. Garret, Guglielmo Pezza, and Emmanuil G.