MILAN — Italian auto racing champion-turned-Paralympic gold medalist Alex Zanardi was transferred to a hospital in Padua on Saturday to proceed his restoration, greater than 5 months after he was significantly injured in a handbike crash.

Zanardi underwent a number of surgical procedures at hospitals in Siena and later in Milan to stabilize him and reconstruct his severely broken face after crashing into an oncoming truck throughout a relay occasion close to the Tuscan city of Pienza on June 19.

“The affected person has reached a typically steady bodily and neurological situation that permitted his switch to a different hospital geared up with all the required medical specialties and nearer to the household residence,” the San Raffaele hospital in Milan mentioned in an announcement.

Zanardi, 54, suffered severe facial and cranial trauma within the crash and was put in a medically induced coma. Docs have warned of attainable mind harm.

Zanardi misplaced each of his legs in an auto racing crash almost 20 years in the past. He received 4 gold medals and two silvers on the 2012 and 2016 Paralympics. He additionally competed within the New York Metropolis Marathon and set an Ironman document in his class.