World record for paralympic star

Paralympic athlete Blake Leeper broke Oscar Pistorius’s record for the T43 400 metres at the US world championship trials on Friday.

Leeper, a 27-year-old born without lower legs, competed in the men’s 400m semifinals wearing carbon fiber prosthetic blades, finishing seventh in 45.25sec. Although the time was not good enough to advance him to Saturday’s final, it saw Leeper smash jailed South African ‘blade runner’ Pistorius’s mark of 45.39 set in Daegu, South Korea in August 2011.