(Video) Fabio Rigueira, amputated one leg ends his second IRONMAN
Another story of improvement, this time in the IRONMAN Brazil of this past weekend, where the Brazilian triathlete Fabio Rigueira has achieved complete your second IRONMAN with crutches, since one leg is missing from the 9 years.
Fabio has completed the test of 3,8 km of swimming, 180 km of cycling and 42 km of running on crutches in a time of 13:56:12.
Entrance to goal by Fabio Rigueira
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These were his times by segment:
- Swimming: 1: 07: 11
- Cycling: 6: 40: 09 (average rhythm 26,99 km / h)
- Race on foot: 5: 50: 05 (average rhythm 8: 19)
The 9 years were detected a rare type of cancer
After a fall and due to the pain that the little boy suffered, he discovered that he was suffering from osteosarcoma, a weird guy from bone cancer which starts in the cells that make up the bones.
After all the efforts on behalf of the specialists who treated him, finally they could not avoid amputation of the leg, since it had a high risk of spreading to other organs of the body.
But the bad luck was fattened with him, since 3 years after the amputation, he was detected metastasis in your lung right and they had to remove 2 / 3 from the organ.
Fabio Rigueira running in IRONMAN Brazil
His start in the Triathlon
It was all his uncle, who practiced triathlon "Only at the 20 years ago I started training with him. I improved a lot in swimming and even managed to be runner-up in the Mar Grande Crossing - Salvador (14k of swimming in the sea), "He explained to the newspaper atletas.info
Little by little, he began to do kilometers on the bike until he reached sessions of up to 400 kilometers. "I was approaching the triathlon without knowing it, but what I was wondering was what it would be like to run", Remembered Fabio Rigueira.
After a soccer game for amputees and finding a coach to match him, Rigueira felt ready to do a triathlon. In his preparation he participated in some smaller distances, but always with the objective of IRONMAN to finish his first test Last year also in Florianapolis with a time of 14: 46, becoming the first Brazilian amputee finisher of a test of this type.
"That gave me to understand that we can fulfill our dreams, we just need to know what we want and trust in ourselves. Since I was a boy I'm in a tough battle, so I know what it means to make an effort", Said the triathlete.
This year he has repeated the feat, improving his time in 50 minutes and finishing the test in 13: 56: 12
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