Össur Salutes Team Össur members' Exceptional Performance at 2023 World Para Athletics Championships in Paris

In all, Team Össur members earned 10 medals at this year's Worlds, encompassing 3 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze medals, including:

"Össur salutes the exceptional achievements of all of the athletes who competed at this year's World Championships," said Sveinn Sölvason, President and CEO of Össur. "We remain truly inspired by the members of Team Össur, who are some of the most accomplished para-athletes in the world, and choose to wear our Cheetah sports prostheses in competition, as well as Össur's other prosthetics technologies for their daily use.

"We are honored to have long-standing relationships with many of these individuals, which allows us to receive their continuous feedback as we continue innovating for people with lower limb loss and limb difference at virtually every level of mobility or activity level," he added.

According to Sölvason, Össur's iconic Cheetah sports prostheses continued to be the prosthesis-of-choice for world-class competitors at this year's World Championships, including the top 5 finishers in the women's T64 (BK) long jump and T62/64 100m, and the top three finishers in the women's T63 (AK) 100m -- including Sabatini Ambra, who set a new World Record as the first female athlete to run the 100m under 14 seconds -- all of whom competed in Össur's sports prosthetic technologies.

Outstanding performances were also seen among male competitors wearing Össur's Cheetah sports prostheses, including seven of the 11 athletes who competed in the men's T64 long jump; the top four finishers in the men's T64 200m; the top three finishers in the men's 100m in the T62/64 (BK) category, and the second and fifth-ranked competitors in the men's T63 (AK) long jump competition.

"So many athletes delivered great results while competing on their Cheetah prostheses, and showed a lot of promise and progress as they continue preparing for Paris next year," Sölvason said.

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