FAYETTEVILLE — A double-amputee has signed to run track at Arkansas next year.
Hunter Woodhall of Syracuse, Utah, competes with a pair of carbon-fiber prosthetic legs.
A rule interpretation in 2015 allows runners with prosthetic legs to compete in NCAA events. Prosthetics are a controversial topic in international track & field, but the NCAA cited research that amputees are at a disadvantage to non-amputees in running events because amputees cannot generate as much force off the ground.
According to USA Track, Woodhall was born with fibular hemimelia, a birth defect that caused neither of his fibulas to form.