Her home was bombed when she was a baby, resulting in the deaths of her father and brothers, and in her legs being maimed.
[1] Prossy Tusabe was selected as the sole member of Uganda's delegation to the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney.
She finished last in her heat, her time of 2:12.45 far behind that of the second slowest overall (the United States's Karen Noris, in 1:09.37).
[2] While in Australia, she applied for refugee status, and obtained it six years later.
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