David Ottley

David Ottley (David Charles " Dave" Ottley; * August 5, 1955 in Thurrock ) is a former British javelin thrower. He was 1.88 m tall and had a competition weight of 95 kg.

At the Olympic Games in 1980 Ottley had not survived as 14 qualification.

At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles as a result of the Olympic boycott lacked the thrower from the Soviet Union and the GDR. The GDR had made ​​at the European Championships in 1982 with Uwe Hohn and at the World Championships in 1983 with Detlef Michel the winner. Because of the boycott of the way was now clear for the best javelin thrower from the non- Soviet bloc countries. So the Finn Arto Harkonen was 86.76 m Olympic champion before David Ottley with 85,74 m and Kenth Eldebrink from Sweden.

At the 1988 Olympic Games Ottley reached number 11 in the preliminaries.

At the Commonwealth Games he competed for England. 1978 in Edmonton, he was fifth, 1982 in Brisbane seventh, and 1986 in Edinburgh, he won gold with 80.62 meters.

David Ottley is 1,88 m tall and weighed 95 kg in his playing days.