A FORMER international athlete, whose career was cut short by injury, has won an award for his company's creative work on a Paralympic Games website.

Teesside University graduate Anthony Borsumato's firm, 13 Strides, helped design Channel Four's website, which covered the London 2012 spectacular.

The website received the prize for Digital Creativity at the Bafta Craft Awards, in London, for its efforts alongside developers, deltatre.

Mr Borsumato founded 13 Strides with his cousin Kevin Allinson, in a business unit at Teesside University, after his hurdling career was curtailed due to injury, and it now employs seven people.

The multimedia applications graduate's firm was commissioned by Channel Four to work on the Games website, using high-impact graphics to display information and results.

It received 18.7m page views, a record for Channel Four.

Mr Borsumato said: “It was a real privilege to be able to work on something like that and Channel Four were fantastic clients.

“To be involved with the Paralympics was a real honour, and it was a fantastic feeling knowing everyone who came through the website had seen our work.”

James Rutherford, Channel Four multi-platform commissioning editor, said: “A large team of people put in a terrific amount of hard work around this project and it’s fabulous they have been recognised.”