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Challenged Athletes Foundation Announces 2008 Access for Athletes Grants

More than $1 Million Distributed to 625 Physically Challenged Athletes Worldwide
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Record numbers at Europe’s largest O&P event

A big Ossur ‘thank you’ to all those who visited us at Europe’s largest orthopaedic gathering in Leipzig, Germany last week.
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Ossur and Oscar Pistorius Celebrate the CAS Ruling

Ossur has always maintained that a prosthesis is what makes amputees whole and able to engage in activities such as walking and running.
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Putting the Ossur stamp on it!

The world’s first intelligent prosthetic foot, the PROPRIO FOOT from Ossur, is being featured on a postage stamp in the very country where the company has its head office, Iceland.
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Team Ossur member Jeff Skiba the first amputee in history to clear seven feet in the men's high jump

A banner week for Paralympians. The 24 year old U.S. Paralympian set a new, unofficial men's high jump world record (men's F44 classification), thus becoming the first amputee in history to clear seven feet at the 2008 Asuza Pacific Invitational in Los Angeles, California.
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See you in Leipzig, 21-24 May!

Ossur will soon be heading off for the world congress ORTHOPAEDIE + REHA-TECHNIK 2008 in Leipzig, Germany, eager to share its latest innovations with more than 15,000 expected visitors to Europe’s largest orthopaedic gathering.
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TIME Magazine ranks Oscar Pistorius one of the 100 most influential people of 2008

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