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Nicola Ciotti

Personal information
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1976-10-05) 5 October 1976 (age 48) Rimini, Italy
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)
Sport
Country	Italy
Sport	Athletics
Event	High jump
Club	C.S. Carabinieri
Achievements and titles
Personal best	High jump: 2.31 m (2006)
Medal record European Cup 2005 Florence High jump

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. He also became indoor champion in 2002, 2005 and 2006.

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 Banská Bystrica, gets the minimum for participation in the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Paris.

Achievements

National titles

He has won 6 times the individual national championship.

• 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

References

1. ^ Nicola Ciotti at World Athletics
2. "Italian Championships". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
3. "Italian Indoor Championships". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
4. (in Italian) Indoor: 2,28 per Nicola Ciotti Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
5. ""CAMPIONATI "ASSOLUTI" ITALIANI SUL PODIO TRICOLORE – 1906 2012" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
6. "ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 22 January 2013.

External links

• Nicola Ciotti at World Athletics
• Nicola Ciotti at the Italian Athletics Federation (in Italian)
• Nicola Ciotti at Olympedia

v t e 2004 Italy Olympic Athletics Team
Men's track & road athletes	Stefano Baldini Ivano Brugnetti Daniele Caimmi Maurizio Checcucci Simone Collio Giovanni De Benedictis Alberico Di Cecco Massimiliano Donati Alessandro Gandellini Marco Giungi Andrew Howe Andrea Longo Giuseppe Maffei Marco Torrieri
Men's field athletes	Paolo Casarsa Nicola Ciotti Fabrizio Donato Giuseppe Gibilisco Alessandro Talotti Nicola Trentin Nicola Vizzoni
Women's track & road athletes	Benedetta Ceccarelli Rosaria Console Bruna Genovese Rossella Giordano Monika Niederstätter Elisabetta Perrone Elisa Rigaudo
Women's field athletes	Ester Balassini Clarissa Claretti Claudia Coslovich Simona La Mantia Elisabetta Marin Magdelín Martínez Fiona May

• 1976 births
• Living people
• Sportspeople from Rimini
• Italian male high jumpers
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
• Olympic athletes for Italy
• Italian twins
• World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy
• Athletics competitors of Centro Sportivo Carabinieri
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
• Mediterranean Games competitors for Italy
• 20th-century Italian sportsmen
• 21st-century Italian sportsmen
• Italian Athletics Championships winners