Personal information | |||||||||
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Birth name | Nikolay Georgiyevich Ozolin | ||||||||
Born | [1] Komarowo, Gmina Goleniów, Goleniów County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland | November 2, 1906||||||||
Died | June 25, 2000[2] Moscow, Russia | (aged 93)||||||||
Sport | |||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||
Event | Pole vault | ||||||||
Club | Dynamo Moscow | ||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||
Personal best | 4.30 m (1939)[1] | ||||||||
Medal record
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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]