Otti Roethof Explained

Otti Roethof
Birth Date:ca.
Birth Place:Curaçao
Martial Art:Karate
Medaltemplates:[1]

Otti Roethof (born ca. 1950)[2] is a former Dutch karateka.

Roethof was born on Curaçao and moved with his family to Suriname at the age of 10.[3] In the early 70s he moved to the Netherlands, where he lived in Amsterdam. Between 1977 and 1984 he won multiple Karate medals at the European and World Karate Championships.[4] In 1977 in Tokyo he became the first non-Japanese world champion.[5] In 1984 he published the book Karate: een handboek voor trainer, coach en karateka . In 1985 he became coach of the Dutch national karate team. At his last world championships in 1986 he comes in fourth.[6]

Roethof ran several sport schools and owned a sports retail shop in the 1990s.

Notes and References

  1. News: Home > The Games > Results history . . 8 December 2014.
  2. Named 27 years of age in Nederland behaalt wereldtitel karate, Leidse Courant, 5 December 1977. (in Dutch)
  3. http://archief.wereldomroep.nl/suriname/article/otti-roethof-nog-altijd-succesvol Otti Roethof nog altijd succesvol
  4. Book: Black Belt. May 1978 . Active Interest Media, Inc. . 12– .
  5. http://leiden.courant.nu/issue/LLC/1980-11-22/edition/0/page/11 Otti Roethof rustig op weg naar twee wereldtitels
  6. http://www.limburger.nl/article/20100413/DOSSIERS/100419873 Dossier Otti Roethof