Giuseppe Ottaviani (athlete)

Giuseppe Ottaviani
Personal information

Born	(1916-05-20) 20 May 1916 Sant'Ippolito Italy
Sport
Country	Italy
Club	G.S. Atl. Effebi Fossombrone
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	60 metres indoor = 14.28 WR Triple jump indoor = 4.44 exWR Long jump outdoor = 2,14 exWR Triple jump outdoor = 4,67 exWR

Giuseppe Ottaviani (born May 20, 1916 in Sant'Ippolito) is an Italian masters athlete. He is the current indoor world record holder in the M95 60 metres.^[1] He also held the indoor world record for the triple jump and outdoor world records in M95 age group for long jump and triple jump.^[2] He has 46 Italian National Championships and 13 national records; he holds the outdoor Discus European record too,^[3]^[4]

Biography

After serving in the Italian Air Force during World War II, he spent his career as a men's tailor.

He married Alba Michelini and has three children Paul, Marzia and Matelda. Marzia is now a top masters marathoner.^[5]

At the suggestion of the brothers Paul and Julian Costantini, he started masters athletics in the late 1980s. He won his first national championship in 1999. He is coached by Graziano Bacchiocchi and then in 2010, Mauro Angelini coached him to high jump. After turning 95 in 2011, he became the first 95-year-old athlete to surpass 2 meters for the long jump and 4 meters for the triple jump. He drives himself the 25 km from his home in Sant'Ippolito to the training facility in Fano.

He lives by two mottos; "For me sport is life" and "curiosity drives me to live."

At age 97 he enrolled in the University of the Third Age in Fossombrone.

At the invitation of Professor Ario Federici, he has given the opening lecture in Kinesiology at the University of Urbino for the last two years.

References

External links

performance chart

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