Nikolay Ozolin
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| Birth name | Nikolay Georgiyevich Ozolin | ||||||||
| Born | 2 November 1906 Komarowo, Gmina Goleniów, Goleniów County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland | ||||||||
| Died | 25 June 2000 (aged 93) Moscow, Russia | ||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||
| Event | Pole vault | ||||||||
| Club | Dynamo Moscow | ||||||||
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| Personal best | 4.30 m (1939) | ||||||||
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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. In 1970 he defended a habilitation in pedagogy and later supervised 7 habilitation and more than 50 PhD theses in sport-related topics. His trainees included Leonid Shcherbakov.