Traum's achievement inspired Terry Fox, a Canadian teenager who had lost a leg to cancer.
And Ted Kennedy, whose sister had a severe intellectual disability and whose son lost a leg to cancer.
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The previous year, Constable Peadar Heffron lost a leg in a similar attack as he drove to work in Randalstown, County Antrim.
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Trimm and her husband moved to Butte La Rose after her husband lost a leg while rescuing people after Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana.
The engineer said his cousin was killed, his brother lost a leg and two women in his household were injured in the shooting.
Mr Mackenzie, a former army medic who lost a leg in Iraq, was raised 40ft above the Olympic Stadium to introduce the "Festival of the Flame".
In addition, his son Edward Jr. lost a leg to cancer in the 1970s, and daughter Kara survived a bout with the disease in the early 2000s.
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His work in neurology has helped patients with phantom limb pain, a particularly cruel affliction for people who have lost an arm or a leg.
In an unrelated story, 31-year-old Zac Vawter, who lost his leg in a motorcycle accident, climbed 103 floors of Chicago's Willis Tower wearing a bionic leg.
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Zac Vawter is a 31-year old software engineer who tragically lost his right leg after a motorcycle accident.
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Mr McBean lost an arm and a leg after he stepped on an Improvised Explosive Device in Afghanistan in 2007.
Both Stead and Pollitt required lengthy treatment before continuing, while Wigan lost Ryan Taylor with a leg injury sustained in the same incident.
Claunch had been at the Healing Hands group home for 18 months, owner John Garcia told KTRK. He lost an arm and a leg in a train accident.
But she did not require any amputations, as recently occurred in the case of 24-year-old Aimee Copeland of Georgia, who lost her hands, a leg and a foot as a result of the infection.
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Leeds also lost Hall with a dead leg, while Bulls stand-off Ben Jeffries was helped off in the second half after taking a heavy blow to the head but, in an ill-tempered West Yorkshire derby, tensions again boiled over at the end when punches were traded between both sets of players.
Lt Guy Disney lost his lower leg after a rocket-propelled grenade attack on his armoured vehicle in Helmand.
They put on 55 before a switch to Ollie Rayner's off-spin brought the visitors fortune and Troughton, playing defensively at a leg-side delivery, lost his balance, the ball rebounding off Hodd's pads for a stumping.
Fittingly, Shakib picked up the final wicket, when Steven Finn attempted a mow to leg, as Worcestershire maintained their record of not having lost a County Championship away match to Middlesex since 1985.
Mr. Assefa lost his leg above the knee in a train accident early last year.
But Newcastle, who lost Hatem Ben Arfa to a suspected broken leg, levelled via a close-range Jonas Gutierrez drive.
He has previously been treated for an ulcer on the back of his leg and has almost lost a toe.
Castleford, who lost teenage winger Richard Owen with a suspected broken leg, ran in four tries of their own.
Connor, who lost his left leg aged three months after a fibula problem, won a gold and silver in the T42 category in Sydney four years ago.
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