On August 23, Kim De Roy, CPO, PT, set a world record by an athlete with a transtibial amputation at the Reykjavik Marathon in Iceland with a time of 2:57:06. The 37-year-old De Roy, vice president of sales & marketing and education for prosthetics at Össur Americas, Foothills Ranch, California, was running in his first marathon. De Roy’s performance represented a 38-second improvement over the prior record, set by Canadian Rick Ball in 2010, which was the world’s first sub-three-hour marathon time in the same category.
“This spring I started training for the Reykjavik Marathon, a plan that was originally meant to improve my health, but resulted in a world record,” said De Roy.