{"id":13591,"date":"2026-05-02T20:46:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/?p=13591"},"modified":"2026-05-02T20:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:46:45","slug":"59-ex-formula-one-star-who-lost-both-of-his-legs-in-racing-crash-before-winning-four-paralympic-gold-medals-passes-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/?p=13591","title":{"rendered":"59: Ex-Formula One star who lost both of his legs in racing crash before winning FOUR Paralympic gold medals passes a"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alex Zanardi did not cheat death. He stared it down, twice, and kept going.<br>He lost both legs in a blur of metal and blood, then came back faster.<br>He smashed his skull in a handbike crash, then inspired a Pope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alex Zanardi\u2019s story was never about the brutality of his accidents, but the ferocity of his comebacks. From modest results in Formula One to conquering CART in America, he was already respected. But when the 2001 Lausitzring crash took both his legs, he rewrote what courage in sport could look like. Designing his own prosthetics, joking he\u2019d made himself taller, he learned to walk, then to race, all over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He traded horsepower for human power and became a Paralympic giant, winning four gold medals and two silvers, conquering marathons and Ironman courses, and returning to Daytona as the most revered man in the paddock. Even after his devastating 2020 handbike crash, tributes\u2014from world leaders to Pope Francis\u2014framed him as something rarer than a champion: a beacon. Surrounded by his family, he has finally taken his last lap, but the standard he set for resilience will not fade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Zanardi did not cheat death. He stared it down, twice, and kept going.He lost both legs in a blur of metal and blood, then came back&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13592,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13591\/revisions\/13592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}