Laurent Ottoz (born 10 April 1970) is an Italian

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. He won four medals, at senior level, at

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Career

His personal best time was 13.42 seconds, achieved in August 1994 in

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. This is a former Italian record, which in turn belonged to his father

Eddy Ottoz Eddy Ottoz (born 3 June 1944) is an Italian former athlete and bronze medalist at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the 110 metre hurdles. Biography Sport career Ottoz competed for Italy in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan, and in the ...

with 13.46 seconds. The Italian record currently belongs to

Emanuele Abate Emanuele Abate (born 8 July 1985) is an Italian athlete competing in the 110 metres hurdles. He was born in Genoa. Biography In 2012 he twice improved the national record, first time in Montgeron on 13 May 2012 with 13"32, second time in Turin, ...

with 13.28 seconds. After this he changed event to the

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. His personal best time is 48.52 seconds, and in Italy only Fabrizio Mori has run the distance faster. In 1995, Laurent set the fastest automatically recorded time for the rarely run 200 metres

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at 22.55. While inferior to the last official world record in the race, a hand timed 21.9 by

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in 1960, Ottoz bettered the previous best automatic time 22.63 held by

Colin Jackson Colin Ray Jackson, (born 18 February 1967) is a Welsh former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. During a career in which he represented Great Britain and Wales, he won an Olympic silver medal, became wo ...

, 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. Ottoz ran his race around a bend.

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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.

World best performance

* 200 metres hurdles (bend): 22.55 (

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, 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. *

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: 13.42 (

, 30 August 1994), till 23 June 2002. *

: 48.53 (

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, 5 July 1995), till 26 May 1996.

Achievements

National titles

Ottoz won thirteen individual

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. *4 wins in the

(1990, 1991, 1992, 1994) *6 wins in the

(1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002) *3 wins in the

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indoor (1991, 1993, 1994)

References

External links

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Athlete profile
at All-Athletics web site {{DEFAULTSORT:Ottoz, Laurent 1970 births Living people Sportspeople from Brescia Italian male hurdlers Olympic athletes of Italy Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Italy Athletes (track and field) at the 1997 Mediterranean Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Athletics competitors of Fiamme Gialle