Local Triathlete Nominated for ESPY

Triathlon Forum
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In today’s paper there was an article about a local triathlete nominated for an ESPY (ESPN Sports Award) for disabled female athlete.
Her name is Amy Pamiero-Winters and she is a below the knee amputee who has done a 2:25 olympic and a 3:05 marathon. The ESPY’s are based on online votes.
Apparently there is a link on ESPN.com that you can go to and vote for her. It would be cool for a triathlete to win this award! If you get a chance, check it out and vote.

And for the record I don’t know her, only seen her on training runs and occasionally at races, so I have no personal stake on seeing her win!

Here’s a copy of the link from the local paper.

http://www.meadvilletribune.com/sports/local_story_178002945.html?keyword=topstory

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Here is the link to ESPN ESPY voting. She is listed under “Best Female Athlete with a Disability” towards the bottom of the ballot.

http://espn.go.com/espy2007/index.html#/vote/

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Thanks for the link…I think the link our newspaper published was wrong!

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I know Amy and have raced with her several times. She is flat out awesome fast. She has won triathlons on her everyday leg before she got a race leg. She demolished the marathon world record for female amp. Has won worlds twice I think, and has NO competition in the PC category…no offense to my other PC friends:) She doesn’t have much competition in her age group against able bodied either though! Go vote, then go see her race NYC tri, which is our PC national championships.

david K

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Funny thing is I live in a small town and there are only about a half a dozen people from here that even do Tri’s and I’ve never met her. See her running around town all the time though.

Several of the people I run with at lunch sometimes run with her off and on, but they don’t like to cause they say she’s too fast for them!

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She’s a great person…very approachable. She is a competitor though as her results show. If you ever catch up with her, tell her David K from the PC team says howdy!

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Will do. I know that it seems like every couple of weeks she runs with the group I run with sometimes too, but it’s never on the same day. They are constantly telling me that I should have ran last week or yesterday or so on cause she ran with them.