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T47 is a disability sport classification for disability athletics primarily for competitors with a below elbow or wrist amputation or impairment. T47 is a classification for track events, but unlike the other T40 to T46 classifications, it has no equivalent F47 classification for field events. The amputee sports equivalent class is ISOD the A8 ...
A bilateral amputee is a person who is missing either both upper limbs or both lower limbs. People who are missing both legs below the knee are sometimes referred to as BK while people missing both arms below the elbow are referred as BE. Transtibial amputation is a below the knee amputation.
Jane Buckley, writing for the Sporting Wheelies, describes the athletes in this classification as: "Single above elbow/Single below elbow amputation or similar disability." [ 1 ] The Australian Paralympic Committee defines this classification as being for athletes who have the "Single arm, above or below elbow amputation.
Burnell was born with her right arm ending slightly below the elbow. [3] Her parents encouraged her to wear a prosthetic arm, but she resisted from the start and stopped wearing one entirely when she was nine. [8] Burnell also had dyslexia, which left her unable to read until the age of 10. She learned with extra tuition and the Letterland ...
These days, Tennessee middle school student Aubrey Sauvie, 12, who was born with no hands, says she can bang on her drums as hard or fast as she wants.
Aimee Mullins (born 1975) [1] [2] [3] [4] is an American athlete, actress, and public speaker.She was born with a medical condition that resulted in the amputation of ...
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A woman who is missing part of her arm became fed up with a lack of amputee representation in media, so she decided to create her own — and the result has warmed the hearts of thousands.