Andrew Howe

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Andrew Howe
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Howe in 2007 at 22.
Personal information
National team Italy: 17 caps (2005-2020)
Born (1985-05-12) May 12, 1985 (age 38)
Los Angeles, United States
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Sprint
Long jump
Club C.S. Aeronautica Militare
Coached by
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • 100 m: 10.27 (2006)
  • 200 m: 20.28 (2004)
  • 400 m: 45.70 (2011)
  • Long jump: 8.47 m (2007)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Senior level
Event1st2nd3rd
World Championships 010
World Indoor Championships 001
European Championships 100
European Indoor Championships 100
Continental Cup 010
European Cup (Super League)101
Total322
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2007 Osaka Long jump
World Indoor Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2006 Moscow Long jump
European Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2006 Gothenburg Long jump
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2007 Birmingham Long jump
Youth level
Event1st2nd3rd
World U20 Championships 200
World U18 Championships 001
Gymnasiade 200
Total401

Andrew Howe (born 12 May 1985) is an American-born Italian athlete who specializes in the long jump and sprinting. He won this event as well as the 200 metres at the 2004 World Junior Championships. He was successful at senior level at a young age, winning a long jump bronze at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships before becoming the European Champion later that year. In 2007 he became the European Indoor Champion and won the silver medal at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics.

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A combination of injuries ruled him out for most of the 2008 and 2009 seasons. He returned to action in 2010 and became the Italian champion, representing his country at the 2010 European Athletics Championships.

Biography

Howe celebrating his silver medal at the 2007 World Athletics Championships. Osaka07 D6A Andrew Howe celebrating.jpg
Howe celebrating his silver medal at the 2007 World Athletics Championships.
Howe's mother Rene Felton coached her son from youth level to 2014. Rene Felton.jpg
Howe's mother René Felton coached her son from youth level to 2014.

Howe was born in Los Angeles, United States, to Andrew Howe Sr and René Felton, an American hurdler who is a former United States Junior College National Record in the 100 meter hurdles in Europe and continued participating in Athletics at the Master Level winning Silver Medal 2001 European Indoor Championships 60 Meter hurdles. In 1992, Howe moved to Rieti, Italy with his mother after she divorced Howe Sr and remarried Italian Ugo Besozzi.

Coached by his mother, his international breakthrough came with the double gold medal in the men's long jump and 200 Meters at 2004 IAAF Junior World Championship in Grosseto, Italy 2006 World Indoor Championships, where he finished third. Later the same year he won the gold medal at the European Championships.

In the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships, he won gold with a fifth round leap of 8.30, after trailing his Greek competitor, and eventual silver medalist, Loúis Tsátoumas in the first four jumps.

In the 2007 World Championships, he won the silver medal with a sixth jump of 8.47, achieving the Italian national record and his personal best. He was only surpassed by Irving Saladino at his last jump with 8.57 m. He brought the year to a close with a win at the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Final, becoming the first Italian to win at the competition and only the second to win an event at an IAAF season-end contest. He was given the first European Athletics Rising Star Award in recognition of his achievements that season. [5]

Following this, his 2008 season was blighted by a shoulder injury and then hamstring problems, [6] and he did not make it past the qualifiers of the long jump at the 2008 Summer Olympics. The next season held further physical problems for the Italian and surgery on his Achilles tendon ruled him out for the year.

He returned to action in July 2010 with a win in the long jump at the Italian Athletics Championships. [7] He attempted to defend his continental title at the 2010 European Athletics Championships, but his jump of 8.12 m brought him fifth place and Christian Reif succeeded him to the European title. [8] Nearing the end of the season, Howe ran in the 200 m at the Notturna di Milano – marking a return to an event in which he had competed sparely. In a return to form, he won the race and although he eased up in the final metres he recorded a time of 20.30 seconds – two hundredths away from his long-standing personal best. [9]

He completed his winter training in Qatar and at the University of California, Los Angeles. At the start of the outdoor season he ran a personal best and European-leading time of 45.70 seconds over 400 metres and then took a surprise win over 200 m at the Golden Gala in Rome with a run of 20.31 seconds (also a season's best for Europe). [10] [11]

Italian Olympic gold medal sprinter Lamont Marcell Jacobs said that when he was growing up, Howe, who is also mixed-race and half-American, was his idol. [12]

National records

Achievements

Youth
YearCompetitionVenueRankEventPerformanceNotes
2001 World Youth Championships Flag of Hungary.svg Debrecen 3rdLong jump7.61 m
2002 World Junior Championships Flag of Jamaica.svg Kingston 5th4×100 m relay 39.86
2004 World Junior Championships Flag of Italy.svg Grosseto 1st200m 20.28 s (+0.1 m/s)
1stLong jump 8.11 m (+0.9 m/s)
Senior
YearCompetitionVenueRankEventPerformanceNotes
2006 World Indoor Championships Flag of Russia.svg Moscow 3rdLong jump8.19 m
2006 European Championships Flag of Sweden.svg Gothenburg 1stLong jump8.20 m
2007 European Indoor Championships Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Birmingham 1stLong jump8.30 m
2007 World Championships Flag of Japan.svg Osaka 2ndLong jump8.47 m
2010 European Championships Flag of Colombia.svg Barcelona 5thLong jump 8.12 m
2017 European Indoor Championships Flag of Serbia.svg Belgrade 10th (q)Long jump 7.71 m
2018 European Championships Flag of Germany.svg Berlin 17th (sf)200 m 20.78
2019 World Athletics Relays Flag of Japan.svg Yokohama 4th4×400 m relay 3:16.12 NR (heat)

National titles

Howe won seven national championships at individual senior level. [14] [15]

See also

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