Dainis Ozols

Dainis Ozols

Personal information
Born	(1966-09-11) 11 September 1966 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
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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. 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. Early in his amateur career, he did race as a national of the USSR.

Major results

1988

3rd Overall Okolo Slovenska

1st Stages 5 & 7

1989

1st Overall Rás Tailteann

1st Stages 4 & 9 (ITT)

1st Stage 5 Giro delle Regioni

1st Stages 3 & 4 Girobio

1992

1st Overall Regio-Tour

1st Stage 1

3rd Road race, Summer Olympics

1993

3rd Overall GP Tell

1st Stage 2

2nd Overall Circuit Franco-Belge

1st Stage 4

1994

1st Overall Circuit Franco-Belge

1st Stages 5 (ITT) & 7

1st Stage 3 Grand Prix François Faber

8th Overall Tour DuPont

1995

8th Tour de Berne

1996

4th Overall Peace Race

1st Stage 7

1997

National Road Championships

1st Time trial

4th Road race

1st Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt

1st Stage 9

1st Overall Tour of Małopolska

6th Overall Tour de Pologne

8th Overall Tour du Poitou Charentes

10th Overall Tour of Sweden

1998

1st Time trial, National Road Championships

1999

1st Time trial, National Road Championships

3rd Overall Saaremaa Velotuur

1st Stage 6 (ITT)

2000

1st Stage 9 Peace Race

2nd National Time Trial Championships

6th Overall Tour of Austria

External links

• Dainis Ozols at Cycling Archives
• Dainis Ozols at ProCyclingStats
• Dainis Ozols at CycleBase
• Dainis Ozols at Olympics.com
• Dainis Ozols at Olympedia