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Born | Knurów, Poland | 12 December 1988|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Paralympic swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability | Polio | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | S6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mateusz Michalski (born 12 December 1988) is a Polish Paralympic swimmer. He won two bronze medals for swimming at the 2004 Summer Paralympics. [1]
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