In the fourth edition of our ‘para athletics explained’ series, dutch star sprinter marlou van rhijn talks about blade running.

Blade runner paralympics. On the right, pistorius competes in the 2008. A photo combination of oscar pistorius showing nelson mandela the medals he won at the beijing 2008 paralympic games. The paralympic games are bigger than ever, with 4280 athletes competing across 166 teams, and much new found media attention.

Oscar pistorius, the blade runner, win the gold medal at 100m (class t44) at the beijing paralympic games 2008 Former south africa paralympic superstar, oscar pistorius, jailed in 2016 for killing his girlfriend reeva steenkamp, has been moved closer to her family ahead of reconciliation. Blade runner anna steven says she is devastated after a false start resulted in her disqualification from her women’s 100m t64 heat at the tokyo paralympics.

Steven made a false start that resulted in a heartbreaking. Kiwi blade runner anna steven is devastated after getting disqualified from her final event of the tokyo paralympics. Rehm, who turns 33 on sunday, had his right leg amputated below the knee aged 14 after a wakeboarding incident and is known as the blade jumper having had designs to follow.