Brian Frasure

Brian Frasure
Medal record
Track and field (T44)
Competitor for  United States
Paralympic Games
2004 Athens 4x100m - T42-46
2004 Athens 4x400m - T42-46
2008 Beijing 4x100m - T42-46
2008 Beijing 4x100m - T42-46
2000 Sydney 100m - T44
2000 Sydney 100m - T44
2004 Athens 100m - T44
2004 Athens 200m - T44
2008 Beijing 100m - T44

Brian Frasure is a Paralympian athlete from the United States competing mainly in category T44 sprint events.

He competed in the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia. There he won a silver medal in the men's 100 metres - T44 event and was disqualifed in the men's 200 metres - T44 event. He'd tested positive for Nandrolone.[1] He also competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece, where he won a gold medal in the men's 4 x 100 metre relay - T42-46 event, a gold medal in the men's 4 x 400 metre relay - T42-46 event, a silver medal in the men's 100 metres - T44 event, and a bronze medal in the men's 200 metres - T44 event. He also competed in the T44 200 metres, breaking the world record in the heats but was disqualified in the final. He also competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China, winning a gold medal in the men's 4 x 100 metre relay - T42-46 event and a bronze medal in the men's 100 metres - T44 event.

Frasure is also a prosthetist and fitted Oscar Pistorius with his first pair of Ossur Flex-Foot Cheetah carbon fiber running blades.[2]

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