Amy Palmiero-Winters

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Amy Palmiero-Winters (* 18th August 1972 in Meadville (Pennsylvania) as Amy Palmiero ) is the most successful amputated below the knee ultra long-distance runner in the world. She holds eleven world records and won the 2009 James E. Sullivan Award for best amateur athlete.

Life

Amy Palmiero was a talented long distance runner and swimmer even in high school, who also took care of deliveries for her parents' business as a bike messenger. After school, she ended her career and trained as a welder. In 1994, however, she had a serious motorcycle accident that shattered her left lower leg. She had hardly any calf muscles and her foot was reduced from size 7½ to size 4. After three years and 25 operations, the leg was finally amputated below the knee . As a result, she was unable to play any sport for three more years. In 2004, she took part in the Silver Strand Marathon in San Diego , despite being five months pregnant and her prosthesis unsuitable for running. Nevertheless she was 2nd in her handicap class. In 2005, she took part in the New York City Triathlon with the walking prosthesis and also with a borrowed bike and came third. Now she decided to start serious again with the sport, won A Step Ahead Prosthetics , a prosthesis manufacturer, as a sponsor and moved to New York to train full time with the disabled sports team of A Step Ahead Prosthetics . In 2006 she improved the world record for below the knee amputees by 25 minutes in the New York City Marathon in 3:24 hours. She now had a running prosthesis made for her similar to Oscar Pistorius' two. In the fall of the same year she ran 3:04 hours in the Chicago Marathon , the best time ever run by men or women with knee amputees.

Ultra marathon

After failing to qualify for the Paralympics in 2008, she switched to the ultramarathon in 2009 . In October 2009 she ran 100 miles (= approx. 160 km ). In the Heartland Ultra and New Year's Eve 2009 24-hour Arizona Road Racers Run to the Future , she not only ran a world record for unilateral amputee men or women with 209.858 km, but she also won the race against a field of excellent male non-disabled Ultra marathon runners. Because of this success, she was the first person with a disability to ever be accepted into a US national team. On May 17, 2010 she was 18th in the Ultramarathon World Championship (the people without disabilities) with 199.542 km in 24 hours. A month later she ran the 100 mile Western States Endurance Run and won here too.

Paratriathlon

Palmario-Winters won the Paratriathlon World Championship of the International Triathlon Union in their disability class in 2005 and 2006. In 2007, Palmiero-Winters became the first person with a physical disability to be invited to the New York City Triathlon for the non-disabled. In 2014 Palmiero-Winters was the first male or female amputee to do the 3-day Ultraman (= 480 km ). finished successfully. Today she is the founding president of the A Step Ahead Prosthetics Foundation. She kept the double name even after her divorce and has two children.

Honors

  • 2006 Triathlon's Female Physical Challenged Athlete of the Year
  • 2008 inducted into the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame
  • 2009 James E. Sullivan Award as the best amateur athlete in the USA athlete in the country and also won ESPN's * 2010 ESPY Award as the best athlete with a disability
  • 2010 Wilma Rudolph Courage Award from the Womens' Sports Foundation
  • 2010 USA Strength Award
  • 2010 Huffington Post Game Changer Award
  • 2011 Ossur Ultimate Athlete Award
  • 2011 Induction into the Athletes with Disabilities Hall of Fame

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What is classification? on: dbs-npc.de
  2. ↑ About Me. (No longer available online.) See Amy Run, archived from the original on December 3, 2016 ; Retrieved October 26, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seeamyrun.com
  3. ^ Arnd Krüger : American sport between isolationism and internationalism. In: competitive sport. 18, 1, 1988, pp. 43-47 .; 2, 1988, pp. 47-50. up 2nd December 2016.
  4. ↑ A Step Ahead: Prosthetic Limbs, Artificial Legs, Feet, Arms, Hands. ( Memento of October 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at: astepaheadonline.com , August 18, 1972.
  5. ^ Morgan Stanfield: Amy Palmiero-Winters: Running for Her Life | August 2010 | The O&P EDGE. oandp.com, accessed October 26, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Amputee Runner Amy Palmiero-Winters Finishes World's Toughest Foot Race, The Badwater Ultramarathon. ( Memento of March 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at: endurancemag.com , July 13, 2011.
  7. ↑ 24 heures de Brive-la-Gaillarde. 24h-brive.fr, accessed on October 26, 2016 .
  8. ^ The Western States Endurance Run is one of the oldest ultra trail events in the world and certainly one of the most challenging. (No longer available online.) See Amy Run, archived from the original on December 3, 2016 ; Retrieved October 26, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seeamyrun.com
  9. ↑ Amputee World Record Holder in Marathon and Triathlon: Amy Palmiero-Winters Wins Runners World Heroes of Running Award. Retrieved October 26, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Chasing Dreams, Amputee Inspires Others. on: nytimes.com , November 11, 2007.
  11. ^ Amy Palmiero-Winter's Completes Ultraman Race. ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame. up 2nd December 2016.
  13. ^ ADN Announces 2011 Hall of Fame Inductees. up 2nd December 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Palmiero-Winters, Amy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Palmiero, Amy (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ultramarathon runner and triathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 18th August 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Meadville, Pennsylvania