In a Single Bound

Sarah Reinertsen was born with a congenital birth defect. At the age of seven, her leg was amputated. At the age of thirteen, she broke the 100-meter world record for female above-the-knee amputees. At the age of thirty, she became the first female leg amputee to complete the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii. A year later, in CBS’s reality television show The Amazing Race 10, she scaled the Great Wall of China. This book tells her story.Touching, funny, and honest, In a Single Bound is about a feisty little girl from Long Island who became one of the world’s most famous disabled sports figures. But it is also a gripping memoir of inner strength—about a one-legged child trying to fit in with her two-legged friends and a woman who dared to fear less and live more.