Marcin Polak (born 25 November 1982) is a Polish

para-cyclist Para-cycling (or paracycling/para cycling) is the sport of cycling adapted for cyclists who have various disabilities. It is governed by the (UCI). The sport consists of seven different events which include road and track races. The world's eli ...

. He represented Poland at the

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

and

2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport event, multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the Inte ...

Career

On 31 January 2020, Polak set the

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in the 4 km individual pursuit in the B classification with a time of 4 minutes 3.528 seconds. He won a bronze medal in the men's individual pursuit B event at the

. On 31 May 2022, he was stripped of his medal and suspended for four years for breaching anti- doping rules.

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