Edvin Ozolin

Edvin Ozolin

Edvin Ozolin (left) at the 1960 Olympics
Personal information
Birth name	Edvin Sigizmundovich Ozolin Эдвин Сигизмундович Озолин
Born	12 February 1939 (age 77) Leningrad, Russia
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Sprint
Club	Burevestnik Leningrad Armed Forces sports society, Leningrad
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m – 10.2 (1962) 200 m – 20.8 (1965)
Medal record Competitor for  Soviet Union Olympic Games Rome 1960 4×100 m relay European Championships 1966 Budapest 4×100 m relay 1958 Stockholm 4×100 m relay Summer Universiade 1961 Sofia 4×100 m relay 1963 Porto Allegre 200 m 1965 Budapest 200 m 1963 Porto Allegre 100 m 1965 Budapest 4×100 m relay

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

1. "Edvin Ozolin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.