FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Williams F1 Formula One Car Launch - New Williams driver Alex Zanardi sits in the Williams car - 7/1/99 - Action Images/Brandon Malone
(Reuters) - Italian former Formula One driver and Paralympic champion Alex Zanardi has been transferred to a specialist recovery centre a month after suffering serious head injuries in a handbike accident, the hospital treating him said on Tuesday.
The 53-year-old was placed in a medically-induced coma and has had three operations at Siena's Santa Maria alle Scotte hospital since the accident during a road race near the Italian city on June 19.
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