PARALYMPICS long jump champion Markus Rehm saw his hopes of competing in the Olympics dashed last week when the IAAF said he has so far failed to prove that his prosthetic limb does not give him a “competitive advantage”.
Germany’s Rehm, a singleleg amputee who competes wearing a carbon fibre blade prosthesis following a wakeboarding accident when he was a teenager, improved his own world T44 long jump record to 8.40m when winning his third successive title at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha last October.
That mark achieved by Rehm, who jumps off his blade, is just one centimetre off the leap Britain’s Greg Rutherford recorded to win the IAAF world title in Beijing last August, while the distance would have been enough for Olympic gold in London in 2012.
Markus Rehm: struggling to show his blade does not give an advantage
MARK SHEARMAN
A working group was established by the IAAF earlier this year to look into the generic use of prostheses in competition. The objective of the working group was to agree a recommendation for the approval of the IAAF Council regarding IAAF Rule 144.3 (d) which governs that “athletes using a mechanical aid cannot be allowed to compete at major championships unless they can establish that the use of an aid would not provide them with an overall competitive advantage over an athlete not using such an aid”.
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