{"id":9720,"date":"2026-03-04T18:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9720"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:48:52","slug":"andrea-pavan-miracle-to-walk-after-lift-shaft-fall-says-italian-golfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=9720","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Pavan: Miracle to walk after lift shaft fall, says Italian golfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Italian golfer Andrea Pavan said it feels &#8220;like a miracle to be able to walk&#8221; following his release from hospital after a fall down an open lift shaft.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The accident occurred before the recent South African Open<b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> <\/b>at Pavan&#8217;s private accommodation near Stellenbosch Golf Club when the lift doors opened but there was no lift car in the shaft, causing him to tumble three stories down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old was taken to a local hospital with severe shoulder damage and fractures to several vertebrae in his back, and had major surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVeB-6cDIFW\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">In a message on social media<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-i2z2ig-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> on Wednesday, he said it was a &#8220;big day&#8221; as he &#8220;got discharged from the hospital to continue my rehab at an accommodation nearby&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;It truly feels like a miracle to be able to walk and start to do some basic activities, although at a very slow and careful pace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I would like to thank all the Mediclinic staff, all the surgeons, nurses and everyone who has made this incredible recovery a possibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian golfer Andrea Pavan said it feels &#8220;like a miracle to be able to walk&#8221; following his release from hospital after a fall down an open lift shaft. The accident occurred before the recent South African Open at Pavan&#8217;s private accommodation near Stellenbosch Golf Club when the lift doors opened but there was no lift<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}