Stan Kosmala (born 19 February 1950)
is an Australian Paralympic competitor, who has competed in athletics, wheelchair basketball, lawn bowls and shooting. Born in Germany,
he contracted
polio
Poliomyelitis, commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. Approximately 70% of cases are asymptomatic; mild symptoms which can occur include sore throat and fever; in a proportion of cases more severe sym ...
at the age of two. He is married to Paralympic shooter
Libby Kosmala
Elizabeth "Libby" Dudley Kosmala (née Richards), OAM (born 8 July 1942) is an Australian shooter with paraplegia. She represented Australia at twelve Paralympics from 1972 to 2016, and won thirteen medals, nine of them gold.
Personal
Kosmal ...
, whom he met through wheelchair sport, and has two sons and two grandchildren.
He participated in the
1976 Toronto Games in athletics events, and also as a member of the
Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team
The Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team is the men's wheelchair basketball side that represents Australia in international competitions. The team is known as the Rollers. Australia took the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Paralymp ...
.
He won a gold medal at the
1988 Seoul Games in lawn bowls in the Men's Pairs 2–6 event with
Roy Fowler.
At the
2000 Sydney Games, he came ninth just behind his wife in the preliminary round of the Mixed Air Rifle Prone SH1- event, and did not make the final.
References
Paralympic athletes for Australia
Paralympic lawn bowls players for Australia
Australian male bowls players
Paralympic shooters for Australia
Wheelchair category Paralympic competitors
Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair basketball players at the 1976 Summer Paralympics
Lawn bowls players at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
Shooters at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic gold medalists for Australia
Paralympic medalists in lawn bowls
Australian male sport shooters
German emigrants to Australia
German expatriate sportspeople in Australia
1950 births
Living people
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