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Susannah Scaroni Sets a World Record Months After Serious Car Collision

Before she traveled to this year’s Daniela Jutzeler Memorial para track event in Notwil, Switzerland, wheelchair racer Susannah Scaroni didn’t know much about its namesake. She only learned the day before that Jutzeler was a Swiss wheelchair racer killed by a car on a training run outside Zurich in 1994.

The revelation hit hard: Scaroni, too, had been struck by a car while training this past September.

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