Nicola Ciotti Explained

Nicola Ciotti
Nationality:	Italian
Sport:	Athletics
Event:	High jump
Club:	C.S. Carabinieri
Birth Date:	1976 10, df=y
Birth Place:	Rimini, Italy
Weight:	78kg (172lb)
Pb:	High jump: 2.31 m (2006)
Country:	Italy

Nicola Ciotti (born 5 October 1976 in Rimini) is an Italian high jumper. He is the twin brother of Giulio Ciotti.

Biography

He finished fifth at the 2005 World Championships and sixth at the 2006 European Championships. He also competed at the European Indoor Championships in 2002, 2005, 2007 and 2009, the World Championships in 2003, 2005 and 2007 as well as the 2004 Olympic Games and the 2006 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final.

Ciotti became Italian high jump champion in 2005, triumphing over Giulio Ciotti, Andrea Bettinelli, and Alessandro Talotti in those efforts.^[1] He also became indoor champion in 2002, 2005 and 2006.^[2]

His personal best jump is 2.30 metres, achieved in July 2003 in Viersen, and then equalled twice since. He has 2.31 metres on the indoor track, achieved in January 2006 in Hustopeče, at the same competition as his brother jumped the same height for his personal best. On 9 February 2011, almost 35, jumping 2.28 at the meeting in Banska Bystrica, gets the minimum for participation in the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Paris.^[3]

Achievements

2002	European Indoor Championships	Vienna, Austria	24th (q)	2.17 m
2003	World Championships	Paris, France	29th (q)	2.20 m
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	13th (q)	2.23 m
2005	European Indoor Championships	Madrid, Spain	10th (q)	2.27 m
	Mediterranean Games	Almería, Spain	4th	2.21 m
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	5th	2.29 m
2006	World Indoor Championships	Moscow, Russia	10th (q)	2.24 m
	European Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	6th	2.27 m
2007	European Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	18th (q)	2.18 m
	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	16th (q)	2.26 m
2009	European Indoor Championships	Turin, Italy	10th (q)	2.27 m
2011	European Indoor Championships	Paris, France	9th (q)	2.22 m

National titles

He has won 6 times the individual national championship.^{[4] [5]}

• 2 wins in High jump (2005, 2009)
• 4 wins in High jump indoor (2002, 2005, 2006, 2011)

See also

• Italian all-time top lists - High jump

Notes and References

1. Web site: Italian Championships. GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. 7 March 2009.
2. Web site: Italian Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. 7 March 2009.
3. Indoor: 2,28 per Nicola Ciotti
4. Web site: "CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANI SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1906 2012. sportolimpico.it. 22 January 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121224064654/http://www.sportolimpico.it/attachments/article/224/CAMPIONI%20ITALIANI_UOMINI.pdf. 24 December 2012.
5. Web site: ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS. gbrathletics.com. 22 January 2013.