Otti Roethof

Otti Roethof
Otti Roethof (left) and John Reeberg in 1980
Bornca. 1950 (age 74–75)
Curaçao
StyleKarate
Medal record
Men's karate
Representing  Netherlands
World Championship
1977 Long BeachKumite −80 kg
1977 Long BeachKumite team
1980 MadridKumite −80 kg
1980 MadridKumite team
1984 MaastrichtKumite −80 kg
European Championship
1976 IranKumite −80 kg
1978 GenevaKumite −80 kg
1979 HelsinkiKumite −80 kg
1979 HelsinkiKumite team
1984 ParisKumite −80 kg
World Games
1981 Santa ClaraKumite −80 kg

Otti Roethof (born c. 1950) is a former Dutch karateka.

Roethof was born on Curaçao and moved with his family to Suriname at the age of 10. In the early 70s he moved to the Netherlands, where he lived in Amsterdam. Between 1977 and 1984 he won multiple Karate medals at the European and World Karate Championships. In 1977 in Tokyo he became the first non-Japanese world champion. In 1984 he published the book Karate: een handboek voor trainer, coach en karateka (ISBN 90-6076-192-8). In 1985 he became coach of the Dutch national karate team. At his last world championships in 1986 he comes in fourth.

Roethof ran several sport schools and owned a sports retail shop in the 1990s.

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