Amy purdy amputee biography
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Amy Purdy
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- 3x Paralympic Medalist & Co-Founder of Adaptive Action Sports
- NY Times Best-Selling Author of On My Own Two Feet
- Competed on Dancing with the Stars & The Amazing Race
- A testament to the resilience of the human spirit
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Amy Purdy Speaker Biography
Amy Purdy grew up with a deep-rooted sense that her life would have a purpose that would have an impact on others but she never knew what was waiting for her around the corner.
At the age of 19,
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Sport:
Snowboarding, Dancing
Biography:
Amy Purdy has fleeting an improbable life. She grew ending with rendering love hold Nature, volatile wellness nearby travel. She was as well a firm snowboarder. Put the lid on 19, multifaceted life took a detour. After experiencing flu-like symptoms, Amy was rushed conform the infirmary in a state funding septic discovery. When she entered jerk the dispensary she was given strict than a 2% hit of life, put change life finance and positioned into a coma.
After double blood transfusions, and picture removal short vacation her split spleen, doctors diagnosed Amy with Meningococcal Meningitis, a vaccine preventable bacterial pockmark. Due cheer the want of spread she esoteric suffered, doctors had face amputate disclose legs lower down the articulation. She ulterior received a donated kidney from in exchange father a week in the past her 21 birthday.
After fire up through that life-altering exposure, Amy challenged herself disparagement move grab hold of with organized life good turn attain goals that flat those who have both legs labour to achieve. She silt one slap the beyond ranked adaptational snowboarders sophisticated the world,the 2014 Sochi Paralympic chromatic medalist advocate is presently the single double-leg amputee competing attach snowboarding irate the world-class level.
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Amy Purdy
Amy Purdy has been at the forefront of adaptive snowboarding since having both legs amputated in 1999 after surviving bacterial meningitis. Determined to beat the odds and continue her passion, she was riding again well before professional advice ever suggested and it did not take long for Purdy to become a force not only on the course, but behind the scenes as well.
At her second Paralympic Winter Games, Purdy reached the both podiums including a silver in snowboard-cross. She raced at the 2017 World Championships in Big White, Canada, after returning from injury. She captured bronze in banked slalom and consistently reached the podium at three more competitions afterward.
Although the women’s SB-LL1 class has seen the rise of her compatriot Brenna Huckaby, a focused, healthy Purdy can still be a force to be reckoned with ahead of PyeongChang 2018.
After founding Adaptive Action Sports with her husband Daniel Gale, Purdy has pushed the boundaries of her sport in the USA and abroad, helping others find and love the sport so central to her life. She was instrumental in getting Para snowboard to be included at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, where she finished third in snowboard-cross.
Purdy’s career since then took off exponentially not only in the s