The Fastest Man
in the World
Born without hands or feet, Tony Volpentest learned to run on carbon fiber before most people believed it was possible. He set {{ wrTotalPhrase }} — the last of them 11.36 for the 100m at Atlanta 1996 — and left the track after the Sydney Games in 2000. Two of those six are the same race twice in one afternoon: at Barcelona in 1992 the 200 meters record fell in the semifinal at 23.97, then fell again in the final at 23.07.
The medals are the origin story. What came after — the keynote stages, the book, and now a feature film — is the reason he’s still on the road three decades later.


