Ryszard Rogala (born 11 March 1975) is a Paralympic powerlifter of

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

. He began competing in Poland in 1999. He has won Paralympic medals for his nation. He lost both his legs in 1995 after he fell under a train. He is now a county councillor in his hometown.

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