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Pistorius credits his mother, who died at the age of 43 when Pistorius was 15 years old, as a major influence in his life. He grew up in a Christian home and has an elder brother, Carl, and a younger sister, Aimée. Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius was born to Henke and Sheila Pistorius on 22 November 1986 in Sandton, Johannesburg, in what was then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng Province) of South Africa. On appeal by the state for a longer prison sentence, the Supreme Court of Appeal increased the prison term to a total of 15 years. In July 2016, Judge Thokozile Masipa extended Pistorius's sentence to six years. Pistorius was temporarily released on house arrest in 2015 while the case was presented on appeal to a panel at the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, which overturned the culpable homicide verdict and convicted him of murder. He received a five-year prison sentence for culpable homicide and a concurrent three-year suspended sentence for a separate reckless endangerment conviction.

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At his trial the following year, Pistorius was found not guilty of murder, but guilty of culpable homicide. He claimed he had mistaken Steenkamp for an intruder hiding in the bathroom.

On 14 February 2013, Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, paralegal and model Reeva Steenkamp, in his Pretoria home. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Pistorius was the first double-leg amputee participant. At the 2011 World Championships in Athletics, Pistorius was the first amputee to win a nondisabled world track medal. Pistorius prevailed in this legal dispute. He was the 10th athlete to compete at both the Paralympic Games and Olympic Games.Īfter becoming a Paralympic champion, Pistorius attempted to enter nondisabled international competitions, over persistent objections by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and arguments that his artificial limbs gave an unfair advantage. Pistorius ran in both nondisabled sprint events and in sprint events for below-knee amputees.

Both of his feet were amputated when he was 11 months old owing to a congenital defect he was born missing the outside of both feet and both fibulae.

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Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius ( / p ɪ ˈ s t ɔːr i ə s/ pist- OR-ee-əs, Afrikaans: born 22 November 1986) is a South African former professional sprinter and convicted murderer. Blade Runner the fastest man on no legs Tink Tink 'Oz' Pistorius