Marie-Amélie Le Fur
![]() Le Fur at the 2013 IPC Athletics Championship | |
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Born | Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher, Centre Region, France | 26 September 1988
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Sport | Paralympic athletics |
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Marie-Amélie Le Fur (French pronunciation: [maʁi ameli lə fyʁ]; born 26 September 1988) is a French Paralympic athlete from Vendôme, Centre Region, competing in T44 sprint and F44 long jump events. Her left leg was amputated below the knee following a motor scooter accident in 2004.[1] Before she lost her leg, she was a French junior running champion.[2]
She competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There she won a silver medal in the women's Long jump - F44 event, a silver medal in the women's 100 metres - T44 event and finished eighth in the women's 200 metres - T44 event.
She won gold in the T44 100m in London 2012 in a photo-finish, just ahead of Netherlands' Marlou van Rhijn and the USA's April Holmes. She won silver in the T44 200m, behind T43 athlete Marlou van Rhijn, but in a new T44 world record time.[3]
As of January 2013, she also holds T44 world records at 400m and 800m distances.[4]
References
- ^ Londres, Eric Albert, correspondant à (4 September 2012). "Marie-Amélie Le Fur, nouvelle icône du sprint tricolore". Retrieved 6 September 2016 – via Le Monde.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Reid is ready". Stef Reid. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- ^ "London 2012 Paralympic Games - Athletics - Women's 200 m T44". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- ^ "IPC Athletics World Records".
External links
Media related to Marie-Amélie Le Fur at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Marie-Amelie Le Fur at the International Paralympic Committee
- Marie-Amelie Le Fur at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
- Marie-Amélie Le Fur at France Paralympique (in French)
- Paralympic athletes of France
- World record holders in Paralympic athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for France
- Paralympic silver medalists for France
- Paralympic bronze medalists for France
- French female sprinters
- French female long jumpers
- Living people
- 1988 births
- People from Vendôme
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Sportspeople from Loir-et-Cher
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- French athletics biography stubs
- French Paralympic medalist stubs