Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius (born 22 November 1986) is a convicted murderer and former professional sprinter from South Africa. Due to a congenital abnormality, both of his feet were amputated when he was 11 months old; he was born without the outside of both feet and both fibulae. Pistorius competed in both non-disabled sprint events and below-knee amputee sprint events. He was the tenth athlete to compete in both the Paralympics and the Olympics.
Steenkamp was born in Cape Town to horse trainer Barry Steenkamp and his second wife, June (Marshall, formerly Cowburn), who was born in Blackburn, England. Adam Steenkamp and Simone Cowburn, her father’s and mother’s prior marriages, gave her two elder half-siblings.
Did Oscar Pistorius ever win an Olympic medal?
Pistorius is a South African track and field sprinter and bilateral below-the-knee amputee who became the first amputee to compete in an Olympic track event at the 2012 London Games.
He was also the first Paralympian to win a medal in open competition when he helped South Africa’s 4 400 relay team win a silver medal at the 2011 International Association of Athletics (IAAF) world championships. When he was convicted of murder in 2015, his sports achievements were eclipsed.
