Poland at the 2016 Summer Paralympics


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

Medalists

MedalNameSportEventDate
Ewa DurskaAthleticsWomen's shot put F20
Maciej LepiatoAthleticsMen's high jump T44
Maciej SochalAthleticsMen's club throw F31/32
Natalia PartykaTable tennisWomen's individual – Class 10
Rafał WilkCyclingMen's time trial H4
Jakub TokarzParacanoeingMen's KL1
Barbara NiewiedzialAthleticsWomen's 1500 m T20
Katarzyna Marszal
Natalia Partyka
Karolina Pęk		Table tennisWomen's team – Class 6–10
Iwona PodkościelnaCyclingWomen's road race B
Robert JachimowiczAthleticsMen's discus throw F52
Bartosz TyszkowskiAthleticsMen's shot put F41
Wojciech MakowskiSwimmingMen's 100 metre backstroke S11
Michał DerusAthleticsMen's 100 m T45/46/47
Krystyna SiemienieckaTable tennisWomen's individual – Class 11
Alicja FiodorowAthleticsWomen's 100 metres T47
Patryk ChojnowskiTable tennisMen's individual – Class 10
Daniel PekAthleticsMen's 1500 m T20
Rafał CzuperTable tennisMen's individual – Class 2
Anna HarkowskaCyclingWomen's time trial C5
Marzena ZiębaPowerliftingWomen's +86 kg
Lucyna KornobysAthleticsWomen's shot put F34
Karolina KucharczykAthleticsWomen's long jump T20
Rafał WilkCyclingMen's road race H4
Alicja FiodorowAthleticsWomen's 200 metres T47
Jacek Gaworski
Michał Nalewajek
Dariusz Pender		Wheelchair fencingMen's team foil
Anna HarkowskaCyclingWomen's road race C4-5
Janusz RokickiAthleticsMen's shot put F57
Anna Trener-WierciakAthleticsWomen's long jump T38
Adrian CastroWheelchair fencingMen's individual sabre B
Oliwia JabłońskaSwimmingWomen's 100 metre butterfly S9
Piotr GrudzieńTable tennisMen's individual – Class 8
Katarzyna PiekartAthleticsWomen's javelin throw F45/46
Karolina PękTable tennisWomen's individual – Class 9
Barbara NiewiedzialAthleticsWomen's 400 m T20
Kamila KubasParacanoeingWomen's KL1
Michał Nalewajek
Dariusz Pender
Kamil Rząsa		Wheelchair fencingMen's team épée
Milena OlszewskaArcheryWomen's individual recurve open
Lech StoltmanAthleticsMen's shot put F55

Disability classifications

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. 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.

Archery

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.
;Men
;Women
;Mixed

Athletics

;Men
;Track
;Field
AthleteEventsResultRank
Tomasz BlatkiewiczMen's discus throw F3744.268
Tomasz BlatkiewiczMen's shot put F3712.616
Michał DerusMen's long jump T45/46/476.5611
Adrian ImianowskiMen's discus throw F51/5216.335
Robert JachimowiczMen's discus throw F51/5219.10
Karol KozuńMen's shot put F54/5511.334
Maciej LepiatoMen's high jump T442.19 WR
Maciej LepiatoMen's long jump T43/446.0511
Mirosław MadziaMen's discus throw F1132.507
Łukasz MamczarzMen's high jump T421.774
Paweł PiotrowskiMen's shot put F3613.345
Janusz RokickiMen's shot put F56/5714.26
Mariusz SobczakMen's long jump T365.156
Maciej SochalMen's club throw F31/3233.91
Maciej SochalMen's shot put F328.604
Lech StoltmanMen's shot put F54/5511.39
Bartosz TyszkowskiMen's javelin throw F40/4135.938
Bartosz TyszkowskiMen's shot put F4113.56

;Women
;Track
;Field
AthleteEventsResultRank
Ewa DurskaWomen's shot put F2013.94 WR
Lucyna KornobysWomen's shot put F348.00
Lucyna KornobysWomen's javelin throw F3417.884
Karolina KucharczykWomen's long jump T205.55
Katarzyna PiekartWomen's javelin throw F45/4641.07
Katarzyna PiekartWomen's long jump T45/46/475.058
Renata ŚliwińskaWomen's discus throw F40/4123.346
Renata ŚliwińskaWomen's shot put F406.646
Anna Trener-Wierciak'''Women's long jump T384.53

Cycling

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.

Road

;Men
AthleteEventTimeRank
Marcin Polak
Men's road race B—DNF
Marcin Polak
Men's time trial B36:50.0611
Przemysław Wegner
Men's road race B2:31:467
Przemysław Wegner
Men's time trial B36:18.395
Arkadiusz SkrzypińskiMen's road race H41:35:0410
Arkadiusz SkrzypińskiMen's time trial H430:12.018
Rafał WilkMen's road race H41:28:51
Rafał WilkMen's time trial H427:39.31

;Women
AthleteEventTimeRank
Anna Duzikowska
Women's road race B2:12:1413
Anna Duzikowska
Women's time trial B43:28.3114
Iwona Podkościelna
Women's road race B1:58:02
Iwona Podkościelna
Women's time trial B39:54.455
Anna HarkowskaWomen's road race C4-52:19:11
Anna HarkowskaWomen's time trial C528:52.79
Renata KałużaWomen's road race H1-2-3-41:16:015
Renata KałużaWomen's time trial H1-2-334:33.964

Track

;Pursuits and time trials
;Men
;Women

Equestrian

The country earned an individual slot via the Para Equestrian Individual Ranking List Allocation method.
;Individual

Paracanoeing

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.

Powerlifting

;Men
AthleteEventTotal liftedRank
Mariusz TomczykMen's –59 kg—
Grzegorz LanzerMen's –65 kg1708
Marek TrykaczMen's –72 kg1734

;Women
AthleteEventTotal liftedRank
Justyna KozdrykWomen's –45 kg954
Małgorzata Hałas-KoralewskaWomen's –61 kg1004
Marzena ZiębaWomen's +86 kg134

Rowing

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 criteria in the TA Mixed Double Sculls event with a seventh-place finish in a time of 04:08.770.
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A ; FB=Final B ; R=Repechage

Sailing

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 criteria 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.

Shooting

Swimming

;Men
;Women

Table tennis

;Men
;Men's team
;Women
;Women's team

Wheelchair fencing

;Men
;Women

Wheelchair tennis

Poland qualified two competitor in the men's single event, Kamil Fabisiak and Tadeusz Kruszelnicki.