Elite Athletes Earn 10 More Track & Field
Medals
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, July 20,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Össur, a leading global provider
of innovative mobility solutions that help people live a Life
Without Limitations®, congratulates all of the Team Össur athletes
for their outstanding performance at the 2023 World Para Athletics
Championships in Paris.
In all, Team Össur members earned 10 medals at this year's
Worlds, encompassing 3 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze medals,
including:
- The three top finishers in the T64 (BK) women's long jump, all
of whom competed on Össur prostheses, with Dutch athlete Fleur
Jong winning the gold, followed by fellow countrywoman
Marlene van Gansewinkel with the silver and Japan's Maya
Nakanishi earning the bronze.
- Fleur Jong also claimed the gold medal in the
100m in the T62/64 (BK) category and
set a Championship record in the qualifying heats. Canadian
Marissa Papaconstantinou took
home bronze medals in both the 100m
T62/64 (BK) as well as in the women's T64 (BK) 200m sprint.
- Germany's Markus Rehm, often known as "The Blade
Jumper," continued his dominance in men's T64 (BK) long jump with
his sixth back-to-back gold medal and a new Championship Record of
8.49m. In June
2023, Rehm broke his own long jump World Record with an
incredible distance of 8.72m during
the International Para Athletics Meeting in Rhede, Germany.
- Denmark's Daniel Wagner also won a silver medal in the
men's T63 (AK) long jump category.
- In the men's T62/64 (BK) 100m,
Costa Rican athlete Sherman
Guity won the silver medal, while Germany's Felix
Streng took the bronze.
"Össur salutes the exceptional achievements of all of the
athletes who competed at this year's World Championships," said
Sveinn Sölvason, President and CEO of Össur. "We remain truly
inspired by the members of Team Össur, who are some of the most
accomplished para-athletes in the world, and choose to wear our
Cheetah sports prostheses in competition, as well as Össur's other
prosthetics technologies for their daily use.
"We are honored to have long-standing relationships with many of
these individuals, which allows us to receive their continuous
feedback as we continue innovating for people with lower limb loss
and limb difference at virtually every level of mobility or
activity level," he added.
According to Sölvason, Össur's iconic Cheetah sports prostheses
continued to be the prosthesis-of-choice for world-class
competitors at this year's World Championships, including the top 5
finishers in the women's T64 (BK) long jump and T62/64 100m, and the top three finishers in the women's
T63 (AK) 100m -- including
Sabatini Ambra, who set a new World
Record as the first female athlete to run the 100m under 14 seconds -- all of whom competed in
Össur's sports prosthetic technologies.
Outstanding performances were also seen among male competitors
wearing Össur's Cheetah sports prostheses, including seven of the
11 athletes who competed in the men's T64 long jump; the top four
finishers in the men's T64 200m; the
top three finishers in the men's 100m
in the T62/64 (BK) category, and the second and fifth-ranked
competitors in the men's T63 (AK) long jump competition.
"So many athletes delivered great results while competing on
their Cheetah prostheses, and showed a lot of promise and progress
as they continue preparing for Paris next year," Sölvason said.
Contact:
Edda H. Geirsdottir
VP Corporate Communications
egeirsdottir@ossur.com
+354 664 1055
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