Latvian cyclist

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

19883rd Overall Okolo Slovenska1st Stages 5 & 719891st Overall Rás Tailteann1st Stages 4 & 9 (ITT)1st Stage 5 Giro delle Regioni1st Stages 3 & 4 Girobio19921st Overall Regio-Tour1st Stage 13rd Road race, Summer Olympics19933rd Overall GP Tell1st Stage 22nd Overall Circuit Franco-Belge1st Stage 419941st Overall Circuit Franco-Belge1st Stages 5 (ITT) & 71st Stage 3 Grand Prix François Faber8th Overall Tour DuPont19958th Tour de Berne19964th Overall Peace Race1st Stage 71997National Road Championships1st Time trial4th Road race1st Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt1st Stage 91st Overall Tour of Małopolska6th Overall Tour de Pologne8th Overall Tour du Poitou Charentes10th Overall Tour of Sweden19981st Time trial, National Road Championships19991st Time trial, National Road Championships3rd Overall Saaremaa Velotuur1st Stage 6 (ITT)20001st Stage 9 Peace Race2nd National Time Trial Championships6th Overall Tour of Austria

References

External links

• Dainis Ozols at Cycling Archives
• Dainis Ozols at ProCyclingStats
• Dainis Ozols at CycleBase
• Dainis Ozols at Olympics.com
• Dainis Ozols at Olympedia
• Dainis Ozols at the Latvian Olympic Committee (in Latvian)