le FUR Marie-Amelie

Classification
T64, F64 (IPC, 10 Apr 2020)

Type of Impairment
Limb deficiency (marie-amelie-lefur.fr, 01 Oct 2016)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (Athlete, 20 Aug 2018)

Impairment Details
In March 2004 she was injured in a motorcycle accident, which resulted in her left leg being amputated below the knee. (marie-amelie-lefur.fr, 01 Oct 2016; Athlete, 20 Aug 2018)

General
BOOK
In 2019 she published her autobiography titled 'Fais de ta vie un reve' [Make your life a dream]. "I wanted to transmit my life story. I wanted it to be an inspiration for people, impaired or not, who have faced difficulties throughout their lives, or just for those who want to discover what is behind the career of a high performance athlete." (Facebook page, 25 Oct 2019; ouest-france.fr, 14 Oct 2019)

MATERNITY BREAK
In 2019 she gave birth to her daughter Anna and returned to training in October 2019. She had originally intended to start a family after the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, but when she was eight months pregnant she had pre-eclampsia, and lost the baby. She spoke openly about the experience to help others. "We learnt that the mourning of a perinatal loss affected many more people than we realised, and we discovered there was a sort of taboo and strong sense of guilt on the issue. So I really wanted to use this experience that we had been through to help others who may also go through this." (lanouvellerepublique.fr, 13 Sep 2019; ouest-france.fr, 14 Oct 2019; france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr, 22 May 2018)

NPC PRESIDENT
In December 2018 she became president of the French Paralympic and Sports Committee [CPFS]. "I am very happy and honoured with the mission I am given and I wish to use my personal experience and my status as a high-level athlete." (paralympic.org, 14 Dec 2018; ouest-france.fr, 09 Nov 2018)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
She was a co-chairperson of the athletes' committee for France's successful 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games proposal. She has also been an ambassador for the French Sports Ministry's campaign to fight against discrimination. (edf.fr, 23 Mar 2016; intensite.net, 07 Jun 2018)

OCCUPATION
She works as a project chief at a nuclear power plant in Saint-Laurent-des-Eaux, France. (ouest-france.fr, 31 May 2018; handisport.org, 21 Dec 2018; lanouvellerepublique.fr, 13 Sep 2019, 16 Oct 2019)

She won four medals at the 2015 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, which saw her become the first French Para athletics competitor to have won 10, 11 and then 12 career world championship medals. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Jan 2021)