Rafał Wilk
| File:Rafal wilk foto hepnar2.jpg Wilk as a speedway rider | |
| Born | 9 December 1974 Łańcut, Poland |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Polish |
| Career history | |
| Poland | |
| 1991–1996, 1999–2000 2002–2004 | Rzeszów |
| 1997 | Łódź |
| 1998 | Gniezno |
| 2001, 2005-2006 | Krosno |
| Denmark | |
| 2004 | Brovst |
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Rafał Wilk (born 9 December 1974 in Łańcut) is a Paralympic handcyclist and former speedway rider from Poland.[2]
Career
[edit | edit source]Wilk won two gold medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.[1][3] Now he is a handcyclist but he used to be a professional speedway rider. He started doing sports in 1991, at the age of 12. On 3 May 2006, Rafal Wilk had an accident during a speedway meeting in Krosno. He injured his spinal cord, and lost control in the lower part of his body. After the accident, he was determined to continue as an athlete, so he took up monoski and went on to practice handbiking. He proved successful in the latter, shortly winning his first Polish championship title. In 2012, during the London Summer Paralympic Games he won two gold medals in road cycling in the H3 category (handbiking).
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c London 2012 site Archived 8 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ The News.pl
External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 7 March 2018)
- Rafal Wilk at the International Paralympic Committee Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Rafał Wilk at the Polski Komitet Paralimpijski (in Polish)
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- 1974 births
- Living people
- Polish male cyclists
- Polish speedway riders
- Paralympic cyclists for Poland
- Paralympic gold medalists for Poland
- Paralympic silver medalists for Poland
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Poland
- Paralympic medalists in cycling
- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Cyclists from Subcarpathian Voivodeship
- People from Łańcut
- 21st-century Polish sportsmen
- Polish cycling biography stubs
- Polish Paralympic medalist stubs