 Polak in 2016 | |
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| Born | 25 November 1982 Bełżyce, Poland |
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| Country | Poland |
| Sport | Para-cycling |
Marcin Polak (born 25 November 1982) is a Polish para-cyclist. He represented Poland at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Paralympics.
| Polak in 2016 | |
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| Born | 25 November 1982 Bełżyce, Poland |
| Sport | |
| Country | Poland |
| Sport | Para-cycling |
Marcin Polak (born 25 November 1982) is a Polish para-cyclist. He represented Poland at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Paralympics.
On 31 January 2020, Polak set the world record in the 4 km individual pursuit in the B classification with a time of 4 minutes 3.528 seconds. [1]
He won a bronze medal in the men's individual pursuit B event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [2] On 31 May 2022, he was stripped of his medal and suspended for four years for breaching anti-doping rules. [3] [4]
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Poland competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021.
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Chile competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics from 24 August to 5 September 2021.
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The men's individual pursuit track cycling events at the 2020 Summer Paralympics will take in place between August 25 to 28 2021 at the Izu Velodrome, Japan. Six events will take place in the men's event also over six classifications. The distances of them are: 4000m for the B, C4 and C5 events;and 3000m for the C1, C2 and C3 events.
The medal table of the 2020 Summer Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals that are won by their athletes during the competition. The 2020 Paralympics were the sixteenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities. The games were held in Tokyo, Japan from 24 August to 5 September 2021. There were 539 medal events.
The men's individual pursuit class B track cycling event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics will be taking place on 25 August 2021 at the Izu Velodrome, Japan. This class is for the cyclist who is blind or has visual impairments, thus they ride tandem bicycles with a sighted cyclist. There will be 14 pairs from 10 different nations competing
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Alexandre Lloveras is a French para-cyclist who represented France at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics.
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