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| National team | Italy: 17 caps (2005-2020) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1985-05-12)May 12, 1985 (age 39) Los Angeles, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Event(s) | Sprint Long jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | C.S. Aeronautica Militare | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Andrew Howe (born 12 May 1985) is an American-born Italianathlete who specializes in thelong jump andsprinting. He won this event as well as the 200 metres at the2004 World Junior Championships. He was successful at senior level at a young age, winning a long jump bronze at the2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships before becoming theEuropean Champion later that year. In 2007 he became the European Indoor Champion and won the silver medal at the2007 World Championships in Athletics.
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 the2010 European Athletics Championships.
Howe was born inLos Angeles, United States, to Andrew Howe Sr and René Felton, an Americanhurdler who is a formerUnited States Junior College National Record in the100 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 toRieti,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, Italy2006 World Indoor Championships, where he finished third. Later the same year he won the gold medal at theEuropean Championships.
In the2007 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 the2007 World Championships, he won the silver medal with a sixth jump of 8.47, achieving theItalian national record and his personal best. He was only surpassed byIrving Saladino at his last jump with 8.57 m. He brought the year to a close with a win at the2007 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 firstEuropean 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 the2008 Summer Olympics. The next season held further physical problems for the Italian and surgery on hisAchilles 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 the2010 European Athletics Championships, but his jump of 8.12 m brought him fifth place andChristian Reif succeeded him to the European title.[8] Nearing the end of the season, Howe ran in the 200 m at theNotturna 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 inQatar and at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles. At the start of the outdoor season he ran a personal best and European-leading time of 45.70 seconds over400 metres and then took a surprise win over 200 m at theGolden Gala inRome with a run of 20.31 seconds (also a season's best for Europe).[10][11]
Italian Olympic gold medal sprinterLamont Marcell Jacobs said that when he was growing up, Howe, who is also mixed-race and half-American, was his idol.[12]
| Year | Competition | Venue | Rank | Event | Performance | Notes |
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| 2001 | World Youth Championships |  Debrecen | 3rd | Long jump | 7.61 m | |
| 2002 | World Junior Championships |  Kingston | 5th | 4×100 m relay | 39.86 | |
| 2004 | World Junior Championships |  Grosseto | 1st | 200 m | 20.28 s | (+0.1 m/s) |
| 1st | Long jump | 8.11 m | (+0.9 m/s) |
| Year | Competition | Venue | Rank | Event | Performance | Notes |
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| 2006 | World Indoor Championships |  Moscow | 3rd | Long jump | 8.19 m | |
| 2006 | European Championships |  Gothenburg | 1st | Long jump | 8.20 m | |
| 2007 | European Indoor Championships |  Birmingham | 1st | Long jump | 8.30 m | |
| 2007 | World Championships |  Osaka | 2nd | Long jump | 8.47 m | |
| 2010 | European Championships |  Barcelona | 5th | Long jump | 8.12 m | |
| 2017 | European Indoor Championships |  Belgrade | 10th (q) | Long jump | 7.71 m | |
| 2018 | European Championships |  Berlin | 17th (sf) | 200 m | 20.78 | |
| 2019 | World Athletics Relays | Yokohama | 4th | 4×400 m relay | 3:16.12 | NR (heat) |
Howe won seven national championships at individualsenior level.[14][15]
Nel suo sogno olimpico Andrew Howe ha deciso di affidarsi alla guida tecnica di Stefano Serranò, allenatore del gruppo sportivo Aereonautica Militare ed ex saltatore
