Poland at the 2016 Summer Paralympics explained

Npc:	POL
Npcname:	Polish Paralympic Committee
Games:	Summer Paralympics
Year:	2016
Location:	Rio de Janeiro
Competitors:	90
Sports:	13
Flagbearer:	Rafał Wilk
Rank:	10
Gold:	9
Silver:	18
Bronze:	12
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1972

Poland competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016.

Disability classifications

See main article: Disability sport classification. Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.^{[1] [2]} Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.^[3]

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Poland qualified two archers for the Rio Games following their performance at the 2015 World Archery Para Championships, both in the recurve open with one spot for a man and one for a woman. Milena Olszewska earned the first spot. She came into the competition as the 2014 European Para Archery Championship the silver medallist. Piotr Sawicki earned Poland's second spot after defeating Japan’s Takahiro Hasegawa.^[4]

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Adam Dudka	Men's individual Compound open	655	23	L 136-141	Did not advance
Piotr Sawicki	Men's individual Recurve open	621	8	W 6-0	W 6-2	L 3-7	Did not advance

Women

Mixed

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Men

Track

Athlete	Events	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Krzysztof Ciuksza	Men's 400m T36	55.97	4
	Men's 800m T36	2:16.90	6
Michał Derus	Men's 100m T45/46/47	10.79	3 Q	10.79
Aleksander Kossakowski Sylwester Lepiarz (guide)	Men's 1500m T11	—	DSQ	Did not advance
Rafał Korc	Men's 1500m T20	3:56.54	4
Mateusz Michalski	Men's 100m T13	11.09	5 Q	11.01	5
Daniel Pek	Men's 400m T20	52.43	10	Did not advance
	Men's 1500m T20	3:56.17
Łukasz Wietecki	Men's 5000m T12/13	15:36.04	10
	Men's 1500m T12/T13	3:54.20	5

Field

Athlete	Events	Result	Rank
Tomasz Blatkiewicz	Men's discus throw F37	44.26	8
	Men's shot put F37	12.61	6
Michał Derus	Men's long jump T45/46/47	6.56	11
Adrian Imianowski	Men's discus throw F51/52	16.33	5
Robert Jachimowicz	Men's discus throw F51/52	19.10
Karol Kozuń	Men's shot put F54/55	11.33	4
Maciej Lepiato	Men's high jump T44	2.19 WR
	Men's long jump T43/44	6.05	11
Mirosław Madzia	Men's discus throw F11	32.50	7
Łukasz Mamczarz	Men's high jump T42	1.77	4
Paweł Piotrowski	Men's shot put F36	13.34	5
Janusz Rokicki	Men's shot put F56/57	14.26
Mariusz Sobczak	Men's long jump T36	5.15	6
Maciej Sochal	Men's club throw F31/32	33.91
	Men's shot put F32	8.60	4
Lech Stoltman	Men's shot put F54/55	11.39
Bartosz Tyszkowski	Men's javelin throw F40/41	35.93	8
	Men's shot put F41	13.56

Women

Track

Athlete	Events	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Alicja Fiodorow	Women's 100m T45/46/47	12.43	3 Q	12.46
	Women's 200m T45/46/47	25.85	2 Q	25.61
Joanna Mazur Michał Stawicki (guide)	Women's 200m T11	26.62	10 Q	26.87	11	Did not advance
	Women's 400m T11	59.05	7	Did not advance
Arleta Meloch	Women's 400m T20	1:01.32	10	Did not advance
	Women's 1500m T20	4:33.19	4
Barbara Niewiedzial	Women's 400m T20	59.20	4 Q	58.51
	Women's 1500m T20	4:24.37
Katarzyna Piekart	Women's 100m T45/46/47	13.36	9	Did not advance
Sabina Stenka	Women's 400m T20	59.63	5 Q	59.27	5
	Women's 1500m T20	—	DNS
Anna Trener-Wierciak	Women's 100m T38	13.70	9	Did not advance

Field

Athlete	Events	Result	Rank
Ewa Durska	Women's shot put F20	13.94 WR
Lucyna Kornobys	Women's shot put F34	8.00
	Women's javelin throw F34	17.88	4
Karolina Kucharczyk	Women's long jump T20	5.55
Katarzyna Piekart	Women's javelin throw F45/46	41.07
	Women's long jump T45/46/47	5.05	8
Renata Śliwińska	Women's discus throw F40/41	23.34	6
	Women's shot put F40	6.64	6
Anna Trener-Wierciak	Women's long jump T38	4.53

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. With one pathway for qualification being one highest ranked NPCs on the UCI Para-Cycling male and female Nations Ranking Lists on 31 December 2014, Poland qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, assuming they continued to meet all other eligibility requirements.^{[5] [6]}

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Marcin Polak (Michał Ładosz - pilot)	Men's road race B	—	DNF
	Men's time trial B	36:50.06	11
Przemysław Wegner (Artur Korc - pilot)	Men's road race B	2:31:46	7
	Men's time trial B	36:18.39	5
Arkadiusz Skrzypiński	Men's road race H4	1:35:04	10
	Men's time trial H4	30:12.01	8
Rafał Wilk	Men's road race H4	1:28:51
	Men's time trial H4	27:39.31

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Anna Duzikowska (Natalia Morytko - pilot)	Women's road race B	2:12:14	13
	Women's time trial B	43:28.31	14
Iwona Podkościelna (Aleksandra Tecław - pilot)	Women's road race B	1:58:02
	Women's time trial B	39:54.45	5
Anna Harkowska	Women's road race C4-5	2:19:11
	Women's time trial C5	28:52.79
Renata Kałuża	Women's road race H1-2-3-4	1:16:01	5
	Women's time trial H1-2-3	34:33.96	4

Track

Pursuits and time trials

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
Marcin Polak (Michał Ładosz - pilot)	Men's individual pursuit B	4:27.997	11	Did not advance
Przemysław Wegner (Artur Korc - pilot)	Men's individual pursuit B	4:26.972	10	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
Anna Duzikowska (Natalia Morytko - pilot)	Women's individual pursuit B	3:48.026	12	Did not advance
	Women's 1000m time trial B	1:14.889	11	Did not advance
Iwona Podkościelna (Aleksandra Tecław - pilot)	Women's individual pursuit B	3:41.944	8	Did not advance
	Women's 1000m time trial B	1:13.411	9	Did not advance
Anna Harkowska	Women's individual pursuit C5	3:53.745	4 Q	3:54.701	4
	Women's 500m time trial C4-5	41.094	13	Did not advance

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. The country earned an individual slot via the Para Equestrian Individual Ranking List Allocation method.^[7]

Individual

Paracanoeing

See main article: Paracanoeing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Poland earned a qualifying spot at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in this sport following their performance at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships in Milan, Italy where the top six finishers in each Paralympic event earned a qualifying spot for their nation. Jakub Tokarz earned the spot for Poland after finishing second in the men's KL1 event. Mateusz Surwilo earned a second spot for Poland after finishing seventh in the men's KL3 event. He qualified because a country only gets one canoe per event, and Russia had two canoes ahead of them.^{[8] [9]}

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jakub Tokarz	Men's KL1	55.469	3 R	54.241	1 FA	51.084
Mateusz Surwiło	Men's KL3	50.339	5 R	45.189	5	Did not advance
Kamila Kubas	Women's KL1	1:01.387	2 FA	1:00.232

Powerlifting

See main article: Powerlifting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Total lifted	Rank
Mariusz Tomczyk	Men's –59 kg	—
Grzegorz Lanzer	Men's –65 kg	170	8
Marek Trykacz	Men's –72 kg	173	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Total lifted	Rank
Justyna Kozdryk	Women's –45 kg	95	4
Małgorzata Hałas-Koralewska	Women's –61 kg	100	4
Marzena Zięba	Women's +86 kg	134

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top eight finish at the 2015 FISA World Rowing Championships in a medal event. France qualified for the 2016 Games under this criterion in the TA Mixed Double Sculls event with a seventh-place finish in a time of 04:08.770.^{[10] [11]}

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); R=Repechage

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top seven finish at the 2015 Combined World Championships in a medal event where the country had nor already qualified through via the 2014 IFDS Sailing World Championships. Poland qualified for the 2016 Games under this criterion in the SKUD 18 event with a fifth-place finish overall and the second country who had not qualified via the 2014 Championships. The boat was crewed by Monika Gibes and Piotr Cichocki.^{[12] [13] [14]}

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Filip Rodzik	Men's 10m air pistol SH1	534	31	Did not advance
Szymon Sowiński		561	6 Q	153.4	4
Filip Rodzik	Mixed 25 metre pistol SH1	548	21	Did not advance
Szymon Sowiński		557	16	Did not advance
Filip Rodzik	Mixed 50 metre pistol SH1	458	34	Did not advance
Szymon Sowiński		525	10	Did not advance

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Men

Athlete	Events	Heats		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Patryk Biskup	100 m freestyle S9	1:10.78	19	Did not advance
	400 m freestyle S9	4:35.68	11	Did not advance
	100 m backstroke S9	1:05.00	1 Q	1:05.10	5
	200 m individual medley SM9	2:28.59	12	Did not advance
Jacek Czech	200 m freestyle S2	did not start
	50 m backstroke S2	1:02.28	6 Q	1:01.91	6
	100 m backstroke S2	2:24.83	8 q	2:17.08	7
Wojciech Makowski	50 m freestyle S11	27.93	12	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle S11	1:01.53	6 Q	1:01.74	7
	100 m backstroke S11	1:09.40	1 Q	1:08.28
Kamil Rzetelski	50 m freestyle S13	26.09	14	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle S13	58.20	20	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly S13	1:02.73	15	Did not advance
	100 m breastroke SB13	1:14.62	10	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Events	Heats		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Karolina Hamer	50 m freestyle S4	57.11	13	Did not advance
	50 m backstroke S4	1:03.11	9	Did not advance
	150 m individual medley SM4	3:21.26	7	—	DSQ
Oliwia Jabłońska	50 m freestyle S10	29.41	11	Did not advance
	400 m freestyle S10	4:47.30	6 Q	4:35.52	4
	100 m butterfly S10	1:11.22	5 Q	1:08.77
Joanna Mendak	50 m freestyle S13	28.64	5 Q	28.35	5
	100 m freestyle S13	1:03.73	11	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly S13	1:08.06	6 Q	1:08.37	7
Paulina Woźniak	100 m butterfly S9	1:17.27	17	Did not advance
	100 m breaststroke SB8	1:25.21	3 Q	1:25.04	4
	200 m individual medley SM9	2:42.72	12	Did not advance

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Group			Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Rafał Czuper	Singles class 2	W 3-0	W 3-0	1 Q		W 3-0	W 3-1	L 1-3
Maciej Nalepka	Singles class 3	L 0-3	L 0-3	3	align=center colspan="5"	Did not advance
Krzysztof Żyłka	align=center rowspan="2"	Singles class 4	L w/o 0-3	L 2-3	3	align=center colspan="5"	Did not advance
Rafał Lis	W 3-2	W 3-0	1 Q		L 2-3	align=center colspan="3"	Did not advance
Piotr Grudzień	align=center rowspan="2"	Singles class 8	W 3-2	W 3-0	1 Q		W 3-2	L 2-3	W 3-2
Marcin Skrzynecki	W 3-2	W 3-1	1 Q	L 2-3	align=center colspan="4"	Did not advance
Patryk Chojnowski	Singles class 10	W 3-0	W 3-1	1 Q		W 3-1	W 3-0	L 2-3

Men's team

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Rafał Czuper Maciej Nalepka	Team C3		L 1-2	Did not advance
Rafał Lis Krzysztof Żyłka	Team C4-5	L 1-2	Did not advance
Patryk Chojnowski Piotr Grudzień Marcin Skrzynecki	Team C3		W 2-1	L 1-2	W 2-0

Women

Athlete	Event	Group				Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Dorota Bucław	Singles class 1-2	L 0-3			2 Q		L 2-3	align=center colspan="3"	Did not advance
Katarzyna Marszał	Singles class 6	L 0-3	L 1-3		3	align=center colspan="3"		Did not advance
Karolina Pęk	Singles class 9	W 3-0	W 3-2	W 3-1	1 Q			L 2-3	W 3-2
Natalia Partyka	Singles class 10	W 3-0	W 3-0	W 3-0	1 Q			W 3-2	W 3-0
Dorota Nowacka	align=center rowspan="2"	Singles class 11	L 0-3	L 2-3				3	align=center colspan="3"	Did not advance
Krystyna Siemieniecka	W 3-0	W 3-2		1 Q	W 3-1			L 0-3

Women's team

Wheelchair fencing

See main article: Wheelchair fencing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition	Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Adrian Castro	Men's individual sabre B		W 5–1	2 Q	W 15–11	L8–15	W 15–8
			L 3–5
			W 5–1
			W 5–1
Grzegorz Pluta			W 5–4	3 Q	W 15–13	L14–15	L 8–15	4
			L 4–5
			W 5–2
			L 1–5
Jacek Gaworski	Men's individual foil B		W 5–2	1 Q	L 6-15	Did not advance
			W 5–4
			W 5–0
			W 5–3
Michał Nalewajek	Men's individual foil A		W 5–2	3 Q	L 8-15	Did not advance
			W 5–0
			W 5–2
			L 2–5
			L 1–5
Dariusz Pender	Men's individual épée A		W 5–0	4 Q	L 10–15	Did not advance
			L 4–5
			L 4–5
			L 2–5
			L 3–5
	Men's individual foil A		W 5–1	2 Q	W 15-14	L 2-15	L 11-15	4
			W 5–2
			W 5–3
			L 3–5
			W 5–0
Kamil Rząsa	Men's individual épée B		L 1–4	3 Q	L 12–15	Did not advance
			'W 5–2
			W 3–2
			W 5–3
align=left rowspan=2	Michał Nalewajek Dariusz Pender Kamil Rząsa	align=left rowspan=2	Men's team épée		L 38-45	2 Q	L 28-45	W 45-29
	W 45-27
align=left rowspan=2	Jacek Gaworski Michał Nalewajek Dariusz Pender	align=left rowspan=2	Men's team foil		W 45-42	1 Q	W 45-37	L 27-45
	W 45-35

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition	Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Renata Burdon	Women's individual épée A		L 2–5	5	Did not advance
			L 1–5
			'L 1–5
			L 4–5
			L 1–5
Marta Fidrych			W 5–3	2 Q	L 12–15	Did not advance
			W 5–2
			W 5–0
			W 5–2
			L 2–5
Marta Makowska	Women's individual épée B		L 3–5	3 Q	L 5–15	Did not advance
			W 5–2
			L 4–5
			W 5–0
			W 5–2
	Women's individual foil B		W 5–3	4 Q	L 6-15	Did not advance
			L 0–5
			L 1–5
			W 5–2
			L 3–5
align=left rowspan=2	Renata Burdon Marta Fidrych Marta Makowska	align=left rowspan=2	Women's team épée		L 27-45	2 Q	L 39-45	L 44-45	4
	W 45-25

Wheelchair tennis

See main article: Wheelchair tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Poland qualified two competitor in the men's single event, Kamil Fabisiak and Tadeusz Kruszelnicki.^[15]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kamil Fabisiak	align=left rowspan=2	Men's singles	W 6-1, 6-2	L 0-6, 1-6	Did not advance
Tadeusz Kruszelnicki	W 6-2, 6-2	L 2-6, 0-6	Did not advance
Kamil Fabisiak Tadeusz Kruszelnicki	Men's doubles		W 7-5, 3-6, 6-3	L 2-6, 2-6	Did not advance

See also

• Poland at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Notes and References

1. Web site: Paralympics categories explained . . 3 September 2008 . 25 December 2015.
2. News: Making sense of the categories . . 6 October 2000 . 25 December 2015.
3. News: A-Z of Paralympic classification . . 28 August 2008 . 25 December 2015.
4. Web site: DONAUESCHINGEN AWARDS 82 RIO 2016 PARALYMPIC QUOTA PLACES . World Archery Federation. 24 December 2015. 26 August 2015.
5. Web site: CYCLING QUALIFICATION . International Paralympic Committee . 24 December 2015 . 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151225110516/http://www.rio2016.com/sites/all/iframe/infograficos/paralimpicos/ciclismo-de-estrada/pdf/cycling-paralympics.pdf . 25 December 2015 .
6. Web site: Ranking — PARA — Cycling 2014. UCI. 24 December 2015. 31 December 2014.
7. Web site: EQUESTRIAN. August 24, 2016. FEI. International Paralympic Committee. August 24, 2016.
8. Web site: CANOE Qualification . International Paralympic Committee . 24 December 2015 . 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151225111429/http://www.rio2016.com/sites/all/iframe/infograficos/paralimpicos/canoagem/pdf/canoe-paralympics.pdf . 25 December 2015 .
9. Web site: 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships - Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Qualifier . International Canoe Federation . 24 December 2015 . 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151225080448/http://canoe2015.microplustiming.com/pdf/book.pdf?x= . 25 December 2015 .
10. Web site: Rowing Qualification . International Paralympic Committee . 25 December 2015 . 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151225182920/http://www.rio2016.com/sites/all/iframe/infograficos/paralimpicos/remo/pdf/rowing-paralympics.pdf . 25 December 2015 .
11. Web site: (TAMix2x) TA Mixed Double Sculls - Final. World Rowing. 25 December 2015. 2015.
12. Web site: Sailing Qualification . International Paralympic Committee . 25 December 2015 . 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151225182033/http://www.rio2016.com/sites/all/iframe/infograficos/paralimpicos/vela/pdf/sailing-paralympics.pdf . 25 December 2015 .
13. Web site: SKUD 18. Royal Yacht Club Victoria. 25 December 2015. 2015.
14. Web site: Ten countries guarantee their place in the Rio 2016 Paralympic sailing competition . Rio 2016 Official Website . 27 August 2014 . 26 August 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140829084941/http://www.rio2016.com/en/news/news/ten-countries-guarantee-their-place-in-the-rio-2016-paralympic-sailing-competition . 29 August 2014 .
15. Web site: ITF announces singles entries for Rio 2016 Paralympics. June 24, 2016. ITF Tennis. August 24, 2016.