Fabrizio Borra has died, farewell to the champions' physiotherapist: he had treated Tamberi, Schumacher, Jovanotti, Alonso
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He was 64 years old, ill for some time. He had become famous for what was called "the miracle", after Pantani was hit by a car in the 1995 Milan-Turin
He was known as “the champions’ physiotherapist”. For Gianmarco Tamberi “one of the most incredible people I have ever had the fortune of meeting”. For Jovanotti he was “the man who keeps me on stage”. It is a unanimous condolence for Fabrizio Borra , who died at 64, because the specialist during his career had followed champions of the caliber of Marco Pantani and Gimbo Tamberi and show business personalities such as Lorenzo Jovanotti.
Borra had been ill for some time. He was originally from Brescia but had lived in Forlì for over 30 years. He had followed champions such as Michael Schumacher , Magic Johnson , Fernando Alonso , Andrea Dovizioso , Mario Cipollini , Elia Viviani , Paolo Bettini and also the great champion Tadej Pogacar after his fall at the Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2023. He had become famous for what many media had called the “ miracle ”, in the massophysiotherapy center in Forlì, after Pantani had been hit by a car at the Milan-Turin in 1995. The “Pirate” had suffered multiple fractures to his lower limbs.
“I will miss you, Fabri. Every day. Thank you for teaching me so much and for making me a better person and athlete. My entire career with you has been the greatest fortune I could have had,” the post on social media by Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso . Gianmarco Tamberi had dedicated the gold medal he won at the European Championships in Rome to him in 2024. “A man who conquered the greatest dreams and entered the hearts of anyone who was lucky enough to know him. A man who has been by my side every single day since, way back in 2016, when my career seemed over. A man who did all this with a sea of champions and stars of the show,” wrote the gold medalist in the high jump at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 on social media.
He had started collaborating with Jovanotti in 1996. “He was an undisputed leader for physiotherapists and trainers, an innovator who was able to merge different knowledge to create his own method that differed based on the psychophysical characteristics of those who requested his help. He got champions of every sport and every performing art back into shape, in which the body is an instrument that must be well to express itself at its best,” the singer wrote on social media. Borra had followed him even after the serious accident he had on his bike in the Dominican Republic two years ago.
“The last time we spoke, a few days ago, he was happy because he knew that his boys, whom he trained, will continue and even be able to develop the method. Before he got sick a year ago he was working on a book to tell his colleagues about his experience with champion athletes of every discipline and people of all kinds dealing with situations that were often difficult to recover from and bodies to rehabilitate and 'tune'. I loved the coach, we spent beautiful moments together, in the most important moments of my life, in the happy passages and in the difficult ones, he was always with me and with my family”.
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