Exceptional Team Össur Performance at the 2025 Para Athletics World Championships in New Delhi

Össur congratulates the members of Team Össur for their incredible accomplishments at the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi, India.

Collectively, the athletes delivered another watershed performance with total of 17 medals at this year’s World Championships – 7 gold, 3 silver and 7 bronze – while competing on their iconic Össur Cheetah® prosthetic sports blades. Team Össur athletes set two new Championship Records and dominated in several events, including sweeping the awards in the women’s 100m in the T64 category. They also set national records and season-best results, including:

• Dutch athlete Fleur Jong, a triple gold medalist at this year’s event, who also became the three-time World Champion in the T62/64 women’s long jump category, setting another new Championship record of 6.81m.  Jong also topped the podium for the third consecutive year in the women’s 100m and claimed her third gold medal of these Championships as a member of Netherlands’ national 4x100m universal relay team.  

• Germany’s Markus Rehm, “The Blade Jumper,” also continued his dominance in the men’s T64 long jump with his eighth consecutive back-to-back gold medal, setting a new Championships Record with a distance of 8.43m. Rehm’s Team Össur teammate Derek Loccident of the U.S. set another new American record in men’s long jump, taking silver with his distance of 8.21m.

Several other Team Össur athletes also earned multiple medals at this year’s Worlds, including:

• Felix Streng of Germany, who delivered gold medal-winning performances in both the men’s 100m and 200m in the T64 category, including a season’s best 21.60s in the 200m event.

• The Netherlands’ Marlene van Gansewinkel, who turned in winning performances in both the women’s 100m -- earning silver behind her countrywoman Jong -- as well as in the women’s 200m in the T64 category, where she took the gold medal with a season’s best of 26.16s.

• Canada’s Marissa Papaconstantinou, who took silver in the women’s 200m and bronze in the women’s 100m behind Team Össur teammates Jong and van Gansewinkel.

• Daniel Wagner of Denmark, who earned bronze medals in both the men’s long jump and men’s 100m in the T63 category.

• Costa Rican athlete Sherman Guity Guity, who earned bronze medals in both the men’s 100m and 200m in the T64 category.

In addition, American Team Össur athletes Beatriz Hatz earned a bronze medal in the women’s long jump T64 category, while Noelle Lambert-Beirne took the bronze in the women’s long jump in the T63 category.

 “We salute the extraordinary members of Team Össur who competed at this year’s World Championships,” said Sveinn Sölvason, President and CEO of Embla Medical, the parent company of Össur. “We are honored that they choose to wear our Cheetah sports prostheses
in competition, as well as Össur’s other prosthetics technologies for their daily use.”

He continued: “These individuals inspire us not only through their athletic performance, but
as they perform a critical role in providing the ongoing feedback that helps shape our continued development of cutting-edge prosthetics technologies. We are grateful to partner with these individuals as we continue pursuing our commitment to innovation, so that people living with limb loss and limb difference, regardless of their abilities or mobility levels, may live a life without limitations.”