Alex Zanardi shows ‘significant improvement’ after road accident, say doctors

Alex Zanardi
Alex Zanardi has received four Paralympic gold medals and additionally the Rome Marathon in 2010 and the Unique York bound the next yr

Paralympic champion and ex-Formula 1 driver Alex Zanardi’s health has shown “valuable clinical enhancements” at some level of his time in intensive care after a boulevard accident in June, scientific doctors say.

Zanardi, 53, suffered severe head accidents when he misplaced sustain watch over of his handbike in a boulevard bound in Tuscany and crashed into a truck on 19 June.

He underwent three surgeries at a Siena health facility, turned into moved to a rehabilitation centre and turned into then transferred to the intensive care unit at the San Raffaele Sanatorium in Milan about a days later.

The Italian raced in Formula 1 for Jordan, Minardi, Lotus and Williams within the 1990s after which raced within the Cart Championship within the US.

He had each and each his legs amputated after a motor racing accident in 2001 at the Lausitzring computer screen in Germany, and has since change into one amongst the finest-identified figures in Paralympic sports actions.

Zanardi received two gold medals at the 2012 London Paralympic Games and 4 years later received two extra in Rio de Janeiro.

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