T44 (classification)
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T44 is a disability sport classification for disability athletics, applying to "Single below knee amputation or an athlete who can walk with moderately reduced function in one or both legs." It includ
Australian Neil Fuller is a T44 competitor.
Paralympic World Cup 2009 Athletics in the T44 class. From left to right, the athletes are Oscar Pistorius, Jerome Singleton and Arnu Fourie.
Oscar Pistorius
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Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius is a South African double amputee, former professional sprinter, and convicted murderer. He was the 10th athlete to compete at both the Paralympic Games and Olympic Games.
Pistorius in 2011
Pistorius taking part in the Landsmót ungmennafélags Íslands in Kópavogur, Iceland, in July 2007
Pistorius in his prostheses at an International Paralympic Day event in Trafalgar Square, London, on 8 September 2011
The South African newspaper The Citizen announcing the IAAF's decision to ban Pistorius from its competitions – photographed in Johannesburg on 16 January 2008