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Oscar Pistorius South African runner b orn without fibulas

Oscar Pistorius South African runner b orn without fibulas Bilateral below-the-knee amputee, age 11 months Paralympic champion at 100m, 200m, 400m

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Oscar Pistorius South African runner b orn without fibulas

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  1. Oscar Pistorius South African runner born without fibulas Bilateral below-the-knee amputee, age 11 months Paralympic champion at 100m, 200m, 400m Time of 45.1 s in 400m, 2011, met the “A” standard to qualify for able-bodied world championships and Olympics. Pistorius selected by S. Afruca for 2011 T&F champioships and for 2012 Olympics. At both events, he qualified for the semifinals but did not get to the finals.

  2. IAAF requested a report in 2007 on whether Pistorius had an unfair advantage. He was tested for 2 days in 2007 at the lab of Bruggemans in Germany. Bruggemans concluded that Pistoriius did have an unfair advantage. Pistorius appealed this finding. The IAAF requested a second analysis which was done by Alana Grabowski, Roger Kram, McGowan, Brown, & Hugh Herr.

  3. Biomechanical and metabolic analysis of long sprint running of the double transtibial amputee athlete O. Pistorius using Cheetah sprint prostheses – Comparison with able-bodied athletes at the same level of 400m sprint performance – A study performed on the request of the IAAF Report 1512/2007 G.-P. Brüggemann, A. Arampatzis, F. Emrich CONFIDENTIAL

  4. The hypothesis that the transtibial amputee’s metabolic capacity is higher than that of the healthy counterparts was rejected. The metabolic tests indicated a lower aerobic capacity of the amputee than of the controls. In the 400 m race the handicapped athlete’s VO2 uptake was 25% lower than the oxygen consumption of the sound controls, which achieved about the same final time. … In total the double transtibial amputee received significant biomechanical advantages by the prostheses in comparison to sprinting with natural human legs. The hypothesis that the prostheses lead to biomechanical disadvantages was rejected.

  5. See graph, text on p.12. Absolute oxygen uptake (in ml/min) kinetics of Pistoriusand the control subjects (means und standard deviations) during the 400 m race. The average body mass of the control is 78 kg. Therefore the relative VO2 consumption increases the differences between Pistorius and the controls (see Fig.2). The black curve gives a polynomial fit of the raw data of Pistorius.

  6. External net joint moments at the ankle joints, the knee joints and the hip joints during stance. Red: O. Pistorius; black: able-bodied controls (mean and standard deviation).The x-axis is normalized from 0 to 100% of ground contact time.

  7. External net joint moments at the ankle joints, the knee joints and the hip joints during stance. Red: O. Pistorius; black: able-bodied controls (mean and standard deviation).The x-axis is normalized from 0 to 100% of ground contact time.

  8. External net joint moments at the ankle joints, the knee joints and the hip joints during stance. Red: O. Pistorius; black: able-bodied controls (mean and standard deviation).The x-axis is normalized from 0 to 100% of ground contact time.

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