Nikolay Ozolin

Nikolay Ozolin
Personal information
Born 2 November 1906[1]
Died 25 June 2000 (aged 93)[2]
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Pole vault
Club Dynamo Moscow
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 4.30 m (1939)[1]

Nikolay Georgiyevich Ozolin (Russian: Николай Георгиевич Озолин, 2 November 1906 – 25 June 2000) was a 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.[3] In 1970 he defended a habilitation in pedagogy and later supervised 7 habilitation and more than 50 PhD theses in sport-related topics.[4] His trainees included Leonid Shcherbakov.[2]

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