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Sport
  
Athletics

Height
  
1.84 m

Role
  
Olympic athlete


Name
  
Edvin Ozolin

Event(s)
  
Sprint

Weight
  
74 kg

Edvin Ozolin

Birth name
  
Edvin Sigizmundovich OzolinEdvin Sigizmundovich Ozolin

Born
  
12 February 1939 (age 85) (
1939-02-12
)
Leningrad, Russia

Personal best(s)
  
100 m – 10.2 (1962)200 m – 20.8 (1965)

Olympic medals
  
Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Club
  
Armed Forces, Saint Petersburg

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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.

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.

References

Edvin Ozolin Wikipedia


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