(1966-09-11) 11 September 1966 (age 57) Smiltene, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
Height
1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight
74 kg (163 lb)
Team information
Current team
Retired
Discipline
Road
Role
Rider
Professional teams
1994
Trident–Schick
1995
Novell–Decca–Colnago
1997–1998
Mróz
2000
Mat–Ceresit–CCC
Medal record
Men's cycling
Representing Latvia
Olympic Games
1992 Barcelona
Individual Road Race
Dainis Ozols (born 11 September 1966) is a former professional cyclist from Latvia. In the 1992 Summer Olympics he won a bronze medal in the 194 km road race, finishing in 4:32:24, 3 seconds behind Erik Dekker of the Netherlands and 4 seconds behind the winner Fabio Casartelli of Italy.[1] He competed in one Grand Tour in his career: the 1995 Vuelta a España, where he finished 50th overall.
His surname is often misspelled as Ozolos and he is often incorrectly identified as having Polish or Lithuanian Nationality.[citation needed] Early in his amateur career, he did race as a national of the USSR.
^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dainis Ozols Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
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