Nikolay Ozolin Explained

Nikolay Ozolin
Birth Name:Nikolay Georgiyevich Ozolin
Birth Date:2 November 1906
Birth Place:Komarowo, Gmina Goleniów, Goleniów County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Death Place:Moscow, Russia
Sport:Athletics
Event:Pole vault
Pb:4.30 m (1939)
Club:Dynamo Moscow
Show-Medals:yes

Nikolay Georgiyevich Ozolin (Russian: Николай Георгиевич Озолин; 2 November 1906 – 25 June 2000) was a Soviet and Russian pole vaulter who won a silver medal at the 1946 European Championships. He retired in 1950 and later had a long career as an athletics coach. Between 1954 and 1962 he headed the Russian research institute of sport and physical education. In 1970 he defended a habilitation in pedagogy and later supervised 7 habilitation and more than 50 PhD theses in sport-related topics. His trainees included Leonid Shcherbakov.