Stan Kosmala (born 19 February 1950) is an Australian Paralympic competitor, who has competed in athletics, wheelchair basketball, lawn bowls and shooting. Born in Germany, he contracted

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at the age of two. He is married to Paralympic shooter

Libby Kosmala Elizabeth "Libby" Dudley Kosmala (née Richards), OAM (born 8 July 1942) is an Australian shooter with paraplegia. She represented Australia at twelve Paralympics from 1972 to 2016, and won thirteen medals, nine of them gold. Personal Kosma ...

, whom he met through wheelchair sport, and has two sons and two grandchildren. He participated in the 1976 Toronto Games in athletics events, and also as a member of the

Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team The Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team is the men's wheelchair basketball side that represents Australia in international competitions. The team is known as the Rollers. Australia took the gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Paralymp ...

. He won a gold medal at the 1988 Seoul Games in lawn bowls in the Men's Pairs 2–6 event with Roy Fowler. 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.

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Paralympic athletes for Australia Paralympic lawn bowls players for Australia Australian male bowls players Paralympic shooters for Australia Wheelchair category Paralympic competitors Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 1976 Summer Paralympics Lawn bowls players at the 1988 Summer Paralympics Shooters at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Australia Paralympic medalists in lawn bowls Australian male sport shooters German emigrants to Australia German expatriate sportspeople in Australia 1950 births Living people {{Australia-bowls-bio-stub