Stan Kosmala

Stan Kosmala, born on 19 February 1950 in Germany, is an Australian Paralympic competitor who has taken part in athletics, wheelchair basketball, lawn bowls and shooting. He contracted polio at the age of two and met his wife, the Paralympic shooter Libby Kosmala, through wheelchair sport. At the 1976 Toronto Games he competed in athletics and was a member of the Australian men's national wheelchair basketball team. His best result came in lawn bowls at the 1988 Seoul Games, where he won the gold medal in the Men's Pairs 2 to 6 event with Roy Fowler. At the 2000 Sydney Games he finished ninth in the preliminary round of the Mixed Air Rifle Prone SH1 event, just behind his wife, and did not reach the final.