This is a former Italian record, which in turn belonged to his father Eddy Ottoz with 13.46 seconds.
His personal best time is 48.52 seconds, and in Italy only Fabrizio Mori and Alessandro Sibilio has run the distance faster.
In 1995, Laurent set the fastest automatically recorded time for the rarely run 200 metres low hurdles at 22.55.
On 16 May 2010 the English hurdler Andy Turner set 22.30, but his record was never recognized by International federation, because was obtained in a straight race.
[5] In 1994 he set a new Italian record of 110 m hs, snatching it from his father Eddy who had held it for 26 years.