Dainis Ozols

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.<ref name="SportsRef">Template:Cite Sports-Reference</ref> 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.Template:Citation needed 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<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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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 File:Bronze medal.svg 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 File:MaillotLetonia.PNG 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 File:MaillotLetonia.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships

1999

1st File:MaillotLetonia.PNG 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

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