Dorota Bucław

{{Short description|Polish para table tennis player}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}

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| name = Dorota Bucław

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| image = BUCLAW Dorota (POL,F1) IMG 5149 (37065784662).jpg

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| caption = Bucław at 2016 Summer Paralympics

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1977|10|16|df=y}}

| birth_place = Bydgoszcz, Poland

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| height = 1.73 m

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| country = {{POL}}

| sport = Para table tennis

| disability = Spinal cord injury

| disability_class = C1

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{{Medal|Sport|Para table tennis}}

{{Medal|Country|{{POL}}}}

{{Medal|Competition|Paralympic Games}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2024 Paris|Singles WS1-2}}

{{Medal|Competition|World Championships}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2018 Lasko|Singles C1-2}}

{{Medal|Competition|European Championships}}

{{Medal|Gold|2019 Helsingborg|Singles C1}}

{{Medal|Silver|2017 Lasko|Singles C1-2}}

{{Medal|Bronze|2013 Lignano|Singles C1-2}}

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Dorota Bucław (born 16 October 1977) is a Polish para table tennis player who competes at international table tennis competitions. She is a World bronze medalist and a European champion, she has also competed at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics and has been selected to compete at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=12 August 2021|title=Dorota Buclaw - Polish Paralympic Committee (in Polish)|url=https://paralympic.org.pl/sportowcy/dorota-buclaw/|url-status=live|archive-date=2021-08-12 |access-date=|website=Polish Paralympic Committee|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812180724/https://paralympic.org.pl/sportowcy/dorota-buclaw/ }}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=12 August 2021|title=Dorota Buclaw - IPTTF Profile|url=http://stats.ipttc.org/en/profiles/3155|url-status=live|archive-date=2021-08-12 |access-date=|website=International Para Table Tennis Federation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812180722/http://stats.ipttc.org/en/profiles/3155 }}

In 1994, Bucław was playing basketball with a friend and her friend pressed her body against a wall, she pulled her neck which caused nerve damage and has affected the use of her right hand. Five years later, she broke her neck following an accident at a level crossing.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=14 November 2019|title=Dorota Buclaw: I feel like a prisoner in my own home (in Polish)|url=https://www.magazynsportowiec.pl/dorota-buclaw-poruszajacy-wywiad-tenis/|url-status=live|archive-date=2020-11-20 |access-date=|website=Magazyn Sportowiec|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120132010/https://www.magazynsportowiec.pl/dorota-buclaw-poruszajacy-wywiad-tenis/ }}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=26 September 2016|title=Two Dorothys, Two Accidents - How a basketball player went to the Games in Rio as a table tennis player (in Polish)|url=https://www.przegladsportowy.pl/igrzyska-olimpijskie/rio-2016/historia-doroty-buclaw-i-doroty-kubickiej/wnkk1t9|archive-date=|access-date=|website=Przeglad Sportowy}}