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.