Space tech helps to reach long-jump world record

German athlete Wojtek Czyz, running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an amazing 6.50 m and beating the previous world record by 27 cm.

Link: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM7WD6EJLF_index_0.html

Time: 3. Oct. 2008

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Topics: record, world