Łukasz Maciej Mamczarz (born 14 June 1988) is a Polish Paralympic athlete who competes in F42 classification

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

events.

Athletics career

Mamczarz represented his country at the

2012 Summer Paralympics The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the 14th Summer Paralympic Gam ...

in London where he won a bronze medal in the high jump (T42). More medals followed in the

IPC Athletics World Championships The World Para Athletics Championships, known as the IPC Athletics World Championships prior to 2017, are a biennial Paralympic athletics event organized by World Para Athletics, a subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). It ...

with a pair of bronze medals won in the high jump in 2013 in Lyon and 2015 in Doha. Mamczarz is also a double

European Championships The European Championships is a multi-sport tournament which brings together the existing European Championships of some of the continent's leading sports every four years. The inaugural edition in 2018 was staged by the host cities of Berlin, ...

gold medalist, winning his event in both Swansea (2014) and Grosseto (2016).

Personal life

Mamczarz was born in

Gorzów Wielkopolski Gorzów Wielkopolski (; german: Landsberg an der Warthe) often abbreviated to Gorzów Wlkp. or simply Gorzów, is a city in western Poland, on the Warta river. It is the second largest city in the Lubusz Voivodeship with 120,087 inhabitants (Decemb ...

, Poland in 1988. In 2009 he lost his left leg in a motorcycle accident. He took up sport after a recommendation by his doctors during his rehabilitation.

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Łukasz Mamczarz
at the {{DEFAULTSORT:Mamczarz, Lukasz Paralympic athletes for Poland Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Poland Sportspeople from Gorzów Wielkopolski 1988 births Living people Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Polish male high jumpers Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the World Para Athletics Championships