- Dainis Ozols
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Medal record Competitor for Latvia Road bicycle racing Olympic Games Bronze Barcelona 1992 Individual Road Race Dainis Ozols (Smiltene, Latvia, 11 September 1966) is a professional cyclist from Latvia. In the 1992 Summer Olympics he earned 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.
His surname is often misspelled as Ozolos and he is often incorrectly identified as having Polish or Lithuanian Nationality. Early in his amateur career, he did race as a national of the USSR.
Palmares
1992
- Bronze medal - Olympic Games road race, Barcelona, Spain
- winner - Regio-Tour, Germany
1993
1994 - Trident (Belgium)
- winner - Circuit Franco-Belge, Belgium
1995 - Novell (the Netherlands)
- 20th - La Flèche Wallonne, Belgium (classic)
- 50th - Vuelta a España
- 63rd - Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Belgium (world cup)
1996
- 92nd - Olympic Games road race, Atlanta, USA
1997 - MROZ (Poland)
- winner - National Championships time trial
- winner - Rheinland Pfalz Rundfahrt, Germany
- winner - Tour of Malopolska
- 4th - National Championships road race
- 26th - World Championships time trial, San Sebastian, Spain
- 64th - World Championships road race, San Sebastian, Spain
- 65th - Danmark Rundt
1998 - MROZ (Poland)
- winner - National Championships time trial
- 29th - World Championships time trial, Valkenburg, the Netherlands
- dnf - World Championships road race, Valkenburg, the Netherlands
1999 - MROZ (Poland)
- winner - National Championships time trial
- 10th - National Championships road race
2000 - Mat Ceresit-CCC (Poland)
- 1st, Stage 9, Peace Race
External links
- Dainis Ozols profile at Cycling Archives
Categories:- Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Latvian cyclists
- Olympic bronze medalists for Latvia
- Olympic cyclists of Latvia
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Latvian sportspeople stubs
- European Olympic medalist stubs
- European cycling biography stubs
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