Laurent Ottoz

Laurent Ottoz
Personal information
NationalityItalian
Born (1970-04-10) 10 April 1970 (age 54)
Brescia, Italy
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
CountryItaly Italy
SportAthletics
Event(s)110 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles
ClubG.S. Fiamme Gialle
Coached byEddy Ottoz
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • 110 m hs: 13.42 (1994)
  • 400 m hs: 48.52 (1993)
  • 60 m hs: 7.62 (1993)
Medal record
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal – second place 1997 Bari 400 m hurdles
Silver medal – second place 2001 Tunis 400 m hurdles
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Almeira 400 m hurdles
Military World Games
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Rome 400 m hurdles

Laurent Ottoz (born 10 April 1970) is an Italian hurdler. He won four medals, at senior level, at international athletics competitions.[1]

Career

His personal best time was 13.42 seconds, achieved in August 1994 in Berlin. This is a former Italian record, which in turn belonged to his father Eddy Ottoz with 13.46 seconds.[2] The Italian record currently belongs to Emanuele Abate with 13.28 seconds.[3]

After this he changed event to the 400 metres hurdles. His personal best time is 48.52 seconds, and in Italy only Fabrizio Mori and Alessandro Sibilio has run the distance faster.

In 1995, Laurent set the fastest automatically recorded time for the rarely run 200 metres low hurdles at 22.55. While inferior to the last official world record in the race, a hand timed 21.9 by Don Styron in 1960, Ottoz bettered the previous best automatic time 22.63 held by Colin Jackson, arguably the best hurdler in the world at that time. On 16 May 2010 the English hurdler Andy Turner set 22.30, but his record was never recognized by International federation, because was obtained in a straight race.[4] Ottoz ran his race around a bend. IAAF still recognizes Styron as a hand timed record, Turner as the automatically timed record, both for a straight race, and Ottoz as the record holder for around a bend.[5]

World best performance

  • 200 metres hurdles (bend): 22.55 (Milan, 31 May 1995) - current holder

National records

In 1994 he set a new Italian record of 110 m hs, snatching it from his father Eddy who had held it for 26 years.[6]

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Italy
1990 European Championships Split, Yugoslavia 14th (sf) 110 m hurdles 13.97 (wind: 0.0 m/s)
1992 European Indoor Championships Genoa, Italy 6th 60 m hurdles[7] 7.80
1994 European Championships Helsinki, Finland 9th (sf) 110 m hurdles 13.53 (wind: +0.1 m/s)
1997 Mediterranean Games Bari, Italy 2nd 400 m hurdles[8] 49.27
1998 European Championships Budapest, Hungary 6th 400 m hurdles[9] 49.15
2001 Mediterranean Games Tunis, Tunisia 3rd 400 m hurdles[8] 50.75
2005 Mediterranean Games Almería, Spain 2nd 400 m hurdles[8] 49.41
2006 European Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 18th 400 m hurdles 51.22

National titles

Ottoz won thirteen individual national championships.[10][11]

See also

References

  1. ^ "PODIO INTERNAZIONALE DAL 1908 AL 2008 - UOMINI" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
  2. ^ Italian all-time list, men's 110 metres hurdles
  3. ^ Italian athletics records Archived 2007-07-01 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "GAY CLOCKS 19.41 ON STRAIGHT 200M IN MANCHESTER". iaaf.org. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  5. ^ "Daegu 2011 Statistics Book - Part 1 (of 5)" (PDF). iaaf.org. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  6. ^ a b c "Annuario FIDAL 2010" (PDF). altervista.org (in Italian). p. 639. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  7. ^ 1992 European Indoor Championships, men's 60 m hurdles final - Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite
  8. ^ a b c Mediterranean Games - GBR Athletics
  9. ^ 1998 European Championships, men's results - Sporting Heroes
  10. ^ ""CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANI SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1906 2012" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  11. ^ "ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 10 February 2013.