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Nikolay Ozolin

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Nikolay Ozolin
Personal information
Birth nameNikolay Georgiyevich Ozolin
Born(1906-11-02)November 2, 1906[1]
Komarowo, Gmina Goleniów, Goleniów County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
DiedJune 25, 2000(2000-06-25) (aged 93)[2]
Moscow, Russia
Sport
SportAthletics
EventPole vault
ClubDynamo Moscow
Achievements and titles
Personal best4.30 m (1939)[1]
Medal record
Representing the  Soviet Union
Silver medal – second place 1946 Oslo Pole vault

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.[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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