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 (1939-02-12) (age 85) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Sprint
Club	Burevestnik Leningrad SKA, Leningrad
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100 m – 10.2 (1962) 200 m – 20.8 (1965)
Medal record Representing Soviet Union Olympic Games 1960 Rome 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.

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.