News

Sixteen Donor Games athletes showcased their elite fitness as part of the opening day of competition at the 2026 Transplant Games of America. Competing in the Heavy Murph workout, kidney and liver donors, along with transplant recipients from across the country, demonstrated that organ donation does not hinder human performance. The competition was won by Danielle … Read More

Transplant donors and recipients gathered at the Denver Convention Center for the first day of the Transplant Games of America. Participants competed in more than 20 different events in honor of donor transplants.

The National Kidney Registry Renal Warriors crossed the finish line of the 300+ mile Source to City Rat Race in downtown Manhattan on Monday, September 22, 2025. The team of four kidney transplant recipients and seven living kidney donors began their journey four days earlier in Lake Placid with a technical and grueling 18-mile hike … Read More

Kidney transplant recipient and Donor Games athlete Abigail Beckman-Green delivered an extraordinary performance at the 2025 World Transplant Games in Dresden, Germany, August 17–24, bringing home five gold medals, two silver medals, and setting four new world records. “Competing at the World Transplant Games was a great experience,” Beckman-Green said. “This year, in addition to … Read More

Congratulations to all the athletes who participated in the Donor Games 2025 Championship last Saturday. We had 20 top athletes from around the country competing. The competitive intensity was at a level that we have never seen before, with many of the finishing times separated by just a few seconds or a few reps. Men’s … Read More

“I mean, she saved my life.” One organ transplant changes two lives in Cumberland County.

Some Bay Area kidney donors and recipients are defying expectations, as they take on a race more than 300 miles long. As they gear up for the challenge this week, they’re inspiring others along the way. 

Between the two of them, Whitney Baker and Hilary Baude have completed 17 half-marathons, 30 marathons, three Ironman Triathlons and donated two kidneys.

The National Kidney Registry (NKR) is proud to sponsor a team of 11 transplant recipients and donors as they take on the grueling Rat Race: Source to City, a 316‑mile multisport traverse of the Hudson River Valley, beginning at the river’s source in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and ending in Battery Park, … Read More

Zachary Sutton is a strong advocate for organ transplantation and is dedicated to spreading awareness on its benefits. In 2008, he became the first altruistic living kidney donor in South Carolina when he donated a kidney to Michael Cheeks, a man who had been on dialysis for 15 years.