Born without the lower portion of his spine, Kurt Fearnley was given just a week to live. Medical staff deemed his condition so severe they even asked his parents if they actually wanted to take ...

Kurt Fearnley won the men’s Paralympics marathon at Athens in 2004 and at Beijing last summer, and Sunday he took the Chicago Marathon wheelchair division for the second straight year.

Born without the lower portion of his spine, Kurt took up wheelchair racing when he was 14. He is the reigning wheelchair marathon world champion and was undefeated over the distance in 2009 with ...

Kurt Fearnley of Australia won the men’s wheelchair race of the Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday, outdueling six-time winner Saul Mendoza of Mexico. Fearnley, 23, won by sprinting past the 37-year ...

"I never [had] that close finish ever. It was so close." More About Kurt Fearnley: Fearnley was born with sacral agenesis, which left him with only the upper part of his spine and little hope to live.

Midtown, in the rain, during rush hour, is slower than that. On Nov. 1, Kurt Fearnley of Australia completed the 26.2 miles of the New York City Marathon course in one hour, 35 minutes and 58 seconds.

Australia's Kurt Fearnley won the men's wheelchair race in the 2015 Bank of America Chicago Marathon Sunday. Fearnley finished first with a time of 1:30:46, unofficially. He has previously ...

For me, it was my prosthetic leg, bog-standard and basic. For Kurt Fearnley, it was his wheelchair and an occupational therapist who told the former sportsman he should be thankful for what he got. " ...

Back Roads guest presenter Kurt Fearnley was like a rock star in Tennant Creek, a Northern Territory town known as the golden heart of the Barkly region, for both its mining history and the ...

Kurt Fearnley of Australia won the Shepherd Center Wheelchair Men’s Division of the AJC Peachtree Road Race on Saturday. Fearnley, 34, was the top seed and won the race in 2007 and ‘08.