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Inspired by amputee marathon runner Paddy Rossbach, [2] Reinertsen began to run at age 11. At her first international track meet, when she was 13, she broke the 100 m world record for female above-knee amputees. [2] Her T42 400 m world record time, set in 1999, still stands today. [3] Reinertsen was a member of the US Disabled Track Team for 7 ...
Mandy Horvath (born June 10,1993) is a Colorado based American bi-lateral above knee amputee, creative writer, public speaker, actress and mountaineer. She is notable as the first female bi-lateral amputee to summit the Manitou Incline, Pikes Peak (twice), the Statue of Liberty stairwell to the crown, and Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, without the use of prosthetic equipment- using her arms and ...
Kellie Lim, a triple amputee due to bacterial meningitis at age 8, [1] graduated near the top of her class at UCLA medical school in 2007 after having been given only a 15% chance of survival. [2] Lim was born in Michigan and raised by her blind mother, Sandy Lim, in Detroit . [ 3 ]
Sarah Doherty (December 21, 1959 – January 5, 2023) was an amputee mountaineer, ski racer, motivational speaker, and entrepreneur who lost her right leg to a drunk driver at age 13. She was a member of the inaugural U.S. National Disabled Ski Team [ 1 ] and was the first amputee to reach the summit of Denali .
Mullins' prosthetic leg shown at CCCB exhibit in Barcelona, October 2015 Mullins watches fellow bilateral amputee Hugh Herr climb the wall at MIT Media Lab's h2.0 symposium, May 9, 2007. Mullins was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania , US to an Irish father Bernard Mullins from Crusheen , County Clare , Ireland and mother Bernadette Mullins.
She was the first female amputee to be nominated for a Tony Award, and the first female amputee to perform on Broadway. [8] She co-created SulliFlinn Productions with fellow Webster Grad, Becca Flinn White. They produce online comedy content, short films and are developing a comedy, Legs, based on their life experiences. They were 2015 fellows ...
Amy Palmiero-Winters (born August 18, 1972) is a below-knee amputee, long-distance runner, and triathlete. She holds eleven world records in various events. In 2010, she was awarded the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States and the ESPN ESPY Award as the top female athlete with a disability in the world.
Her experience inspired her parents to found the non-profit organization Art4sport Onlus, which promotes sport for amputee young people. The 2012 Summer Paralympics were too early in her career for her to take part, but she was chosen as a torchbearer for the opening ceremony after an online campaign where more than 1,000 people emailed the ...