Great Olympians

Biographies - OTT

Hans Ott

Kurt Ott

Ludwig Ott

Nikolaus "Niko" Ott

Ilness of two team-mates prevented him from rowing in the B-final of the coxed fours, but then was called up to the final of the eights because of the illness of Roland Böse (frg-GER/1968). He won the gold there. He donated his medal to Böse, and was presented with a copy by the IOC.

Alfonso Ottaviani

Lou Otten

Olympic Competitor nr 4751

• 1908-10-22-13:00 - Football - semifinal - lost (Qb)
• 1908-10-23-15:00 - Football - bronze medal match - won (960)

Anne Ottenbrite

Claude Otterbeen

Henrik Iversen Ottesen

Merlene Ottey

competed in 1984 as

Merlene Ottey-Page

B. 1966-05-10, Hanover, Jamaica, represented Slovenia in 2004
Track & Field (3 silver, 6 bronze)

	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	HP
Women's 100 m	-	bronze	SFdns	fifth	silver	bronze	SF:5th	11284.02
Women's 200 m	bronze	bronze	fourth	bronze	silver	-	16th	14678.4
Women's 4 x 100 m	sixth	8th	fin.dq	fin.dnf	bronze	silver	-	2191.2
Women's 4 x 400 m	9th							40
								28193.62

With 7 individual (and 2 relay) medals, she was the most medalled sportsperson, never to have won gold, until Franziska van Almsick took that record away from her. She lost the 100 metres gold at Atlanta by .005 seconds. She had previously lost the 1993 World Championship by a similarly undetectable margin.
She received a two-year drugs ban in 1999, but she got a reprieve and made it to Sydney, to become one of a very few athletics stars to compete in six Olympics. Having finished only fourth in the national trials, she had to blackmail the Jamaican authorities into letting her start in the 100 meters. Yet again, she needed less than one hundredth of a second, for another medal. She then led Jamaica, and herself to yet another relay silver.
Jamaica with Merlene Ottey qualified for six consecutive finals of the 4x100.
Aged 38, she competed in her seventh olympiad representing Slovenia.
She won a sixth bronze medal, a ninth in total, when Marion Jones got disqualified over six years after her triumph in Sydney.
That made her a joint record holder, with Harri Kirvesniemi, Alexei Nemov, Heikki Ilmari Savolainen, and Franziska van Almsick, of the number of bronze medals (SIX)

Milton Bruce "Milt" Ottey

Tom Ottey

David Charles "Dave" Ottley

Anita Otto

In 2003, she founded a Boot Throwing club in Berlin and she later became vice-president of the International Boot Throwing Association.

Frank Markus Otto

Martin Alfred "Fred" Otto

Gisela Otto

John Otto

Kristin Otto

B. 1965-02-07, Leipzig, Germany
Swimming (6 gold)

	1988	HP
50 m Free-style	gold	6400
100 m Free-style	gold	6400
100 m Backstroke	gold	6400
100 m Butterfly	gold	6400
4 x 100 m Free-style Relay	gold	1600
4 x 100 m Medley Relay	gold	1600
		28800

For winning six gold medals at Seoul, Kristin Otto received also the Paek Sang crown for the most valuable athlete.
One of the most all-round swimmers ever, she won her first World Championship at 100 m backstroke in 1982. She had her best chance of medals in 1984, but the boycott prevented her (as an East German) from going to the Olympics. When she cracked a vertebra later that year, it looked as though her career was over. She spent nine months in a neck brace and returned to compete in the 1986 World Championships, where she won 4 gold medals (100 m free-style, 200 m medley and two relays) and 2 silvers. She proved even better two years later at Seoul.
She is now a TV commentator.
She is the highest placed Olympian on my list to have competed in just one Olympiad.

Louise Otto

Olympic Competitor nr 6143

• 1912-07-08-19:30 - Swimming - Women's 100 m Free-style, round one, heat one - second (Q)
• 1912-07-11-12:00 - Swimming - Women's 100 m Free-style, semifinals - sixth (80)
• 1912-07-15-12:00 - Swimming - Women's 4x100 m Free-style Relay - second (1000)

Margit Otto-Crépin

Poul Emil Otto

Rudolf Otto

Sylke Otto

B. 1969-07-07, Chemnitz (then Karl-Marx-Stadt), (then East-)Germany
Luge (2 gold)

	1992	1994	1998	2002	2006	HP
Women's Singles	13th			gold	gold	19228.8
						19228.8

Werner Otto

Marcel Otto-Bruc

Sergio Eliseo Ottolina

Emanuele Ottonello

Jan Bo Otto Ottosson

Eddy Jean Paul Ottoz

Written 2002-10-29 - last modified 2024-03-05

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