Dainis Ozols Explained
Dainis Ozols |
Birth Date: | 11 September 1966 |
Birth Place: | Smiltene, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union |
Height: | 1.78 m |
Weight: | 74 kg |
Currentteam: | Retired |
Discipline: | Road |
Role: | Rider |
Proyears1: | 1994 |
Proyears2: | 1995 |
Proyears3: | 1997–1998 |
Proyears4: | 2000 |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Dainis Ozols (born 11 September 1966) is a former professional cyclist from Latvia. In the 1992 Summer Olympics he won a bronze medal in the 194 km road race, finishing in 4:32:24, 3 seconds behind Erik Dekker of the Netherlands and 4 seconds behind the winner Fabio Casartelli of Italy.[1] He competed in one Grand Tour in his career: the 1995 Vuelta a España, where he finished 50th overall.
His surname is often misspelled as Ozolos and he is often incorrectly identified as having Polish or Lithuanian Nationality. Early in his amateur career, he did race as a national of the USSR.
Major results
- 1988
3rd Overall Okolo Slovenska
1st Stages 5 & 7
- 1989
1st Overall Rás Tailteann[2]
1st Stages 4 & 9 (ITT)
1st Stage 5 Giro delle Regioni
1st Stages 3 & 4 Girobio
- 1992
1st Overall Regio-Tour
1st Stage 1
3rd Road race, Summer Olympics
- 1993
3rd Overall GP Tell
1st Stage 2
2nd Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
1st Stage 4
- 1994
1st Overall Circuit Franco-Belge
1st Stages 5 (ITT) & 7
1st Stage 3 Grand Prix François Faber
8th Overall Tour DuPont
- 1995
8th Tour de Berne
- 1996
4th Overall Peace Race
1st Stage 7
- 1997
National Road Championships
1st Time trial
4th Road race
1st Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt
1st Stage 9
1st Overall Tour of Małopolska
6th Overall Tour de Pologne
8th Overall Tour du Poitou Charentes
10th Overall Tour of Sweden
- 1998
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1999
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
3rd Overall Saaremaa Velotuur
1st Stage 6 (ITT)
- 2000
1st Stage 9 Peace Race
2nd National Time Trial Championships
6th Overall Tour of AustriaNotes and References
- Dainis Ozols Olympic Results . 24 July 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161203183127/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/oz/dainis-ozols-1.html . 3 December 2016 . dmy-all .
- Web site: Rás Tailteann.