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Leonie Harm was given less than a 1% chance of survival when she was hit by a car in 2013.<\/b><\/p>\n
Thirteen years later and the German has won her maiden Ladies European Tour title with a one-shot victory at the German Masters.<\/p>\n
It caps a remarkable back story for the 28-year-old.<\/p>\n
Harm had been out jogging when she was hit by a car travelling 70km\/h (44mph)., external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n It was the paramedics at the scene who gave given her a very slim chance of surviving.<\/p>\n She was put in a coma but despite severe brain injuries and multiple bone fractures she returned to the golf course just seven weeks later.<\/p>\n A year later and she won the National Women’s Amateur title, going on to win several amateur titles before she moved to the US to study biochemical and biophysical Sciences at the University of Houston.<\/p>\n Her passion to work in that field was personal as her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014 and died two years later., external<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n In 2018, Harm was the first German to win the Ladies’ British Open Amateur Championship – the world’s oldest women’s golf tournament.<\/p>\n Her debut major appearances followed and she turned professional in 2020.<\/p>\n But then came the Covid pandemic and while sport was put on hold, Harm worked as a intern at a company developing a vaccine candidate against the coronavirus.<\/p>\n