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| Born | 11 March 1975 Sierakow, Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Poland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Paralympic powerlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ryszard Rogala (born 11 March 1975) is a Paralympic powerlifter of Poland. He began competing in Poland in 1999. He has won Paralympic medals for his nation. [1]
He lost both his legs in 1995 after he fell under a train. He is now a county councillor in his hometown. [2]
Kościerzyna is a town in Kashubia in Gdańsk Pomerania region, northern Poland, with 23,327 inhabitants as of June 2023. It has been the capital of Kościerzyna County in Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999; previously it was in Gdańsk Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998.
Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author. He received many awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kapuściński's personal journals in book form attracted both controversy and admiration for blurring the conventions of reportage with the allegory and magical realism of literature. He was the Communist-era Polish Press Agency's only correspondent in Africa during decolonization, and also worked in South America and Asia. Between 1956 and 1981 he reported on 27 revolutions and coups, until he was fired because of his support for the pro-democracy Solidarity movement in his native country. He was celebrated by other practitioners of the genre. The acclaimed Italian reportage-writer Tiziano Terzani, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, and Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda accorded him the title "Maestro".
Ryszard Kaczorowski, GCMG was a Polish statesman. From 1989 to 1990, he served as the last President of Poland-in-exile. He succeeded Kazimierz Sabbat, and resigned his post following Poland's regaining independence from the Soviet sphere of influence and the election of Lech Wałęsa as the first democratically elected President of Poland since before the Second World War. He died on 10 April 2010 in the plane crash near Smolensk, Russia, along with the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and other senior government officials.
Ryszard Leon Piec was a Polish footballer.
Mirosław Rogala is a Polish-born American video artist and interactive artist. He has worked in the areas of interactive art, video installation and live performance, post-photographic transformation, and musical composition.
Nicholas von Renys (1360–1411) was a secular member of the Teutonic Knights and a participant in the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War (1409–1411). The Knights blamed him as a scapegoat for their defeat in the Battle of Grunwald, and he was beheaded without trial in 1411.
Ryszard Staniek is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Ryszard Władysław Szymczak was a Polish football player.
Ryszard Tadeusz Koncewicz was a Polish soccer player as well as a coach. In the interbellum period, Koncewicz played without notable successes for Lechia Lwów (1927–1939). Caught by the Wehrmacht during the Polish September Campaign), he spent the war in a German POW camp Oflag IIC Woldenberg, where he represented the unofficial team of the city of Lwów, which consisted of POWs from there.
Ryszard Marian Schnepf is a Polish politician and diplomat.
Ryszard Skowronek is a retired decathlete from Poland. He set his personal best in the event on 21 June 1973 at a meet in Warsaw.
Ryszard Marcin Wolny is a Polish wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.
Ryszard Jan Szurkowski was a Polish road bicycle racer, widely regarded as a legend of the sport in Poland.
Rogala is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Grzegorz Edward Polkowski is a former Paralympic swimmer of Poland. At the 2004 Summer Paralympics he won a silver at 50m Freestyle S11 and at the 2008 Summer Paralympics he won a bronze at 100m Freestyle S11.
Andrzej Ryszard Niemczyk was a Polish volleyball player and coach.
Ryszard Pietruski was a Polish theatre and film actor.
Milena Magdalena Olszewska is a Polish Paralympic archer.
Patryk Chojnowski is a para table tennis player who competes for Poland. He is currently world number one in his sports class category. He is a Paralympic champion, four-time World champion and eight-time European champion.
Kacper Żuk is a Polish professional tennis player.
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