Paralympic runner reunited with missing leg

New Zealand Paralympic athlete Kate Horan and her missing leg have been reunited.

The 100m runner was not allowed to take the $10,000 leg on the plane between London and Amsterdam, where she is competing in the world Paralympic championships, because of restrictions stemming from recent terrorist threats.

Horan said the leg was put in temporary storage with a huge backlog of other luggage and at one stage it appeared she wouldn't get it back in time for the competition, which starts on Monday.

"It was eight days that I hadn't been able to train, so I was getting more and more annoyed," Horan told Radio Live today.

- NZPA