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Stan Kosmala (born 19 February 1950) [1] is an Australian Paralympic competitor, who has competed in athletics, wheelchair basketball, lawn bowls and shooting. Born in Germany, [1] he contracted polio at the age of two. [2] He is married to Paralympic shooter Libby Kosmala, whom he met through wheelchair sport, [3] and has two sons and two grandchildren. [4] [5]
He participated in the 1976 Toronto Games in athletics events, and also as a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team. [6] [7] He won a gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Games in lawn bowls in the Men's Pairs 2–6 event with Roy Fowler. [6] 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. [6] [8]
Elizabeth "Libby" Dudley Kosmala, OAM is an Australian shooter with paraplegia. She represented Australia at twelve Paralympics from 1972 to 2016, and won thirteen medals, nine of them gold.
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