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Alessandro "Alex" Zanardi is an Italian racing driver and paracyclist.
He won two CART championship titles in North America during the late 1990s. He also had a less successful career as a Formula One driver. More recently, he has attracted widespread praise for his return to competition in the aftermath of a crash in 2001 that resulted in the amputation of his legs. He returned to racing less than two years after the accident, competing in the FIA World Touring Car Championship for BMW Team Italy-Spain between 2003 and 2009.
Switching sports, Zanardi took up competition in handcycling, a form of Paralympic cycling, with the stated goal of representing Italy at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. In September 2011, Zanardi won his first senior international handcycling medal, the silver medal in the H4 category time trial at the UCI World Road Para-Cycling Championships. In September 2012 he won gold medals at the London Paralympics in the individual H4 time trial and the individual H4 road race followed by a silver medal in the mixed H1-4 team relay.
On 11 September 2012 he was included by International Paralympic Committee into the London 2012: Top 12 performances list.
Zanardi is also the voice of Guido in the Italian dubbed version of the Pixar film Cars. He reprised his role in Cars 2 and Cars 3.
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