Edvin Ozolin Explained

Birth Place:Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Birth Name:Edvin Sigizmundovich Ozolin
Эдвин Сигизмундович Озолин
Height:1.84m (06.04feet)
Weight:74kg (163lb)
Sport:Athletics
Event:Sprint
Club:Burevestnik Leningrad
SKA, Leningrad
Pb:100 m – 10.2 (1962)
200 m – 20.8 (1965)
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Edvin Sigizmundovich Ozolin (Russian: Эдвин Сигизмундович Озолин, born 12 February 1939) is a retired Soviet runner and athletics coach. He competed in various sprint events at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a silver medal in the relay. He won four medals in the relay at the European championships in 1958 and 1966 and at the Summer Universiade in 1961 and 1965. Individually he won 200 m at the 1963 and 1965 Universiade.[1]

Ozolin was born in Leningrad. He took up athletics in 1955 and soon became the best Soviet sprinter of the 1960s, winning 16 national titles: in the 100 m (1959–1963), 200 m (1960–1961 and 1963), relay (1957, 1961, 1965–1966, and 1968) and 200 m hurdles (1963 and 1967). Later he had a long career as a coach. In 1984–1992 he headed the Soviet sprinting and hurdling team and in 1992–2003 the Malaysian track and field team. He wrote several textbooks on sprint running.

Notes and References

  1. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/oz/edvin-ozolin-1.html. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150704004950/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/oz/edvin-ozolin-1.html. 4 July 2015. dmy-all.