11 Facts About Andrew Howe

Andrew Howe was born on 12 May 1985 and is an American-born Italian athlete who specializes in the long jump and sprinting.

Andrew Howe won this event as well as the 200 metres at the 2004 World Junior Championships.

Andrew Howe 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.

Andrew Howe returned to action in 2010 and became the Italian champion, representing his country at the 2010 European Athletics Championships.

Howe was born in Los Angeles, United States, to Andrew Howe Sr and Rene 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.

Andrew Howe was only surpassed by Irving Saladino at his last jump with 8.57 m Andrew Howe 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.

Andrew Howe was given the first European Athletics Rising Star Award in recognition of his achievements that season.

Andrew Howe returned to action in July 2010 with a win in the long jump at the Italian Athletics Championships.

Andrew Howe completed his winter training in Qatar and at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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