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. 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

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

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

1999

3rd Overall Saaremaa Velotuur 1st Stage 6 (ITT) 2000 1st Stage 9 Peace Race 2nd National Time Trial Championships 6th Overall Tour of Austria