Nikolay Ozolin

Nikolay Georgiyevich Ozolin (2 November 1906 to 25 June 2000) was a Soviet and Russian pole vaulter who won a silver medal at the 1946 European Championships. He retired from competition in 1950 and went on to a long career as an athletics coach. From 1954 to 1962 he headed the Russian research institute of sport and physical education, and in 1970 he defended a habilitation in pedagogy. He later supervised seven habilitation theses and more than fifty doctoral theses on sport-related subjects. Among the athletes he trained was Leonid Shcherbakov.