Kelly Bruno was six months old when she had her leg amputated below the knee due to a congenital deformity . She currently holds world records for amputees in the 200m and 800m distances , has won gold at the 2008 New York Triathlon and ITU World Triathlon Championships in the amputee division , and was the second amputee to finish the Ironman Kona Triathlon in Hawaii in 2007 , setting the current record for the course in the process , In 2008 , she was named a ball girl at the US Open — a first for an amputee . Her father , Dr. Richard Bruno , who was a teacher at Lynn University , was killed while overseeing an outreach mission in Haiti during the earthquake in January 2010 . She also pursued a career in medicine and is currently in residency for Anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina Hospital
earthquake in January 2010
2010 Haiti earthquake
Kelly Bruno