Sarah stepped on the world stage after making sports history in one of the toughest endurance events in the world  –- the Hawaii Ironman.  This legendary race includes a 2.4-mile swim (3.8km), 112-mile bike (180km), and a 26.2-mile run (42.2km).   Sarah is the first woman on a prosthetic leg to finish the Ironman World Championships in Kona, in a very respectable finish time of 15 hours and 5 minutes.

A year later she raced around the world on “The Amazing Race,” the Emmy award winning reality TV series on CBS.   Sarah’s story has been covered in many national newspapers and she has graced the covers of Runner’s World, Triathlete, Competitor and ESPN magazine.  In 2009, GPP Life published her book, entitled “In A Single Bound.”   An honest, touching and funny memoir, how a feisty one-legged girl trying to fit in with her two legged friends, grows up to becomes a world-class athlete and TV personality.

Sarah Reinertsen continues to race in triathlons and road races around the world and is a current member USAT National Paratriathlon team.  She is a 3-time world champion in ITU short course triathlon, and has won the Ironman 70.3 world championships.  Before Sarah became a triathlete, she had prestigious career as a runner, on the track and on the road.  Sarah raced on the US Disabled Track Team for 10 years, including the US team at the 1992 Paralympic Games.  Several years later Sarah made the switch to road racing, and ran in dozens of 10k’s, half-marathons and 7 marathons before becoming a triathlete.  Along the way she has broken world records, and won many awards including ESPN’s ESPY for best female athlete of the year.  

Sarah spends much of her time giving back to the sport and serves as a spokesperson for the Challenged Athletes Foundation, a non-profit that supports athletes with disabilities.  Sarah works with CAF on their mentorship & coaching program, a series of sports workshops around the country, teaching amputees how to run, spin, bike and swim. 

Sarah also works as a motivational speaker, and has moved many audiences at multi-national companies like Merck, MetLife, Credit-Suisse, Barclay’s, etc.  Through her multi-media presentation, Sarah shares her story and motivates others to realize their potential.  Sarah speaks about goal setting, how to face fear, overcome set backs, live with hope, and dares us all to dream big.

Sarah graduated from The George Washington University with a BA in Communication and International Affairs, and received her MA in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California.  

Sarah lives and trains in Orange County, California.