Edvin Ozolin
Edvin Ozolin (left) at the 1960 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Birth name | Edvin Sigizmundovich Ozolin Эдвин Сигизмундович Озолин | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 12 February 1939 (1939-02-12) (age 85) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Burevestnik Leningrad SKA, Leningrad | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 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 4 × 100 m 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), 4 × 100 m 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.[1]
References
- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Edvin Ozolin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 July 2015.
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- 1959: Livio Berruti (ITA)
- 1961: László Mihályfi (HUN)
- 1963: Edvin Ozolin (URS)
- 1965: Edvin Ozolin (URS)
- 1967: Tommie Smith (USA)
- 1970: Martin Reynolds (GBR)
- 1973: Pietro Mennea (ITA)
- 1975: Pietro Mennea (ITA)
- 1977: Clancy Edwards (USA)
- 1979: Pietro Mennea (ITA)
- 1981: Yuriy Naumenko (URS)
- 1983: Innocent Egbunike (NGR)
- 1985: Leandro Peñalver (CUB)
- 1987: Wallace Spearmon Sr. (USA)
- 1989: Robson da Silva (BRA)
- 1991: Jon Drummond (USA)
- 1993: Bryan Bridgewater (USA)
- 1995: Anthuan Maybank (USA)
- 1997: Gentry Bradley (USA)
- 1999: Coby Miller (USA)
- 2001: Marcin Urbaś (POL)
- 2003: Leigh Julius (RSA)
- 2005: Leigh Julius (RSA)
- 2007: Amr Ibrahim Mostafa Seoud (EGY)
- 2009: Ramil Quliyev (AZE)
- 2011: Rasheed Dwyer (JAM)
- 2013: Anaso Jobodwana (RSA)
- 2015: Wilfried Koffi Hua (CIV)
- 2017: Jeffrey John (FRA)
- 2019: Paulo André de Oliveira (BRA)
- 2021: Tsebo Matsoso (RSA)
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