LAMBERTINI Emanuele

Classification
A (IWAS, 2021)

Type of Impairment
Limb deficiency (Athlete, 31 Jul 2016)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (Athlete, 31 Jul 2016)

Impairment Details
He was diagnosed with a rare vascular condition at age one, which resulted in his right leg being amputated above the knee at age eight. (art4sport.org, 01 Jan 2019)

General
FUTURE PLANS
He has studied automation engineering at university and wants to help build and develop multi-functional prosthetics. "I got the inspiration by myself because one day some years ago, I was in my orthopaedic [clinic] and I asked them for a particular bionic knee or foot for some creative stuff which you see in the movies, and the orthopaedic technician who was with me simply answered that those things I was talking about were not invented yet. So instead of crying for myself and complaining, 'Oh why [has] nobody invented [this] yet?' I said, 'You know what, I will invent them for everybody'. I see there are a lot of technologies that can let a person like me or any other amputee person do anything they like, but there's a lot of work to be done yet. I am studying this because I want to eliminate the differences that are still evident. For example, nowadays there isn't a unique prosthesis for walking, running, swimming and many other things. If you want to walk you use a prosthesis. If you want to run, you have to use another one and so on for all the other stuff you want to do. So, the first step would be to create a unique prosthesis which could include all the activities that anyone can do." (paralympic.org, 03 Dec 2020)

At age 17 years and 206 days, he was the youngest member of the Italian Paralympic team that competed in the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (paralympic.org, 03 Dec 2020; SportsDeskOnline, 06 Aug 2021)