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| Born | 22 January 1965 (age 59) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Krystyna Jagodzinska (born 22 January 1965) [1] is a Polish para table tennis player. She earned a gold medal for Poland at the 2004 Summer Paralympics and a bronze medal for Poland at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. [2] [3]
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