Winning at the Olympics with a prosthesis: how those of the Italians who got on the podium are made

Head of Neurophysiopathology Irccs Maugeri Pavia

After the beautiful victory of Marcel Jacobs on the 100 meters at the Tokyo Olympics, Italian athletics achieved a new amazing result in the same race, for women, in the Paralympics with Ambra Sabatini, Martina Caironi and Monica Graziana Contraffatto climb the three steps of the podium together. In accordance with the classification of the International Paralympic Commission, the three blues competed in category T 63, where “T” indicates that the race is on the track and 63 that they are athletes with unilateral transfemoral amputation (i.e. amputated at the level of a thigh) , who compete using a prosthesis.