Laurent Ottoz (born 10 April 1970) is an Italian hurdling, hurdler. He won four medals, at senior level, at International athletics championships and games, international athletics competitions.

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. The Italian record currently belongs to Emanuele Abate with 13.28 seconds. After this he changed event to the 400 metres hurdles. 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 Hurdling, 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 fully automatic timing, 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 (athlete), 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. 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.

World best performance

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

National records

In 1994 he set a new Italian records in athletics, Italian record of 110 m hs, snatching it from his father Eddy Ottoz, Eddy who had held it for 26 years. * 110 metres hurdles: 13.42 ( Berlin, 30 August 1994), till 23 June 2002. * 400 metres hurdles: 48.53 ( Lausanne, 5 July 1995), till 26 May 1996.

Achievements

National titles

Ottoz won thirteen individual Italian Athletics Championships, national championships. *4 wins in the 110 metres hurdles (1990, 1991, 1992, 1994) *6 wins in the 400 metres hurdles (1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002) *3 wins in the 60 metres hurdles 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