Stan Kosmala

{{Short description|Australian Paralympic competitor}}

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{{Use Australian English|date=April 2012}}

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| birth_date = 19 February 1950

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{{MedalSport |Lawn bowls}}

{{MedalCompetition|Paralympic Games}}

{{MedalGold | 1988 Seoul |Men's Pairs 2–6}}

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Stan Kosmala (born 19 February 1950){{cite web|title=Australian Media Guide : 2000 Paralympic Games|url=https://www.clearinghouseforsport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/625295/Sydney_Paralympics.pdf|format=PDF|website=Clearinghouse for Sport|access-date=4 August 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318113201/https://www.clearinghouseforsport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/625295/Sydney_Paralympics.pdf|archive-date=18 March 2016|df=dmy-all}} is an Australian Paralympic competitor, who has competed in athletics, wheelchair basketball, lawn bowls and shooting. Born in Germany, he contracted polio at the age of two.{{cite web|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5156747|title=Libby Kosmala interviewed by Nikki Henningham|work=Australian Centre for Paralympic Studies oral history project|publisher=National Library of Australia|accessdate=16 April 2012}} He is married to Paralympic shooter Libby Kosmala, whom he met through wheelchair sport,{{cite news|title=Out with a bang: Kosmala aiming for London|publisher=News Review Messenger|url=http://city-north-messenger.whereilive.com.au/news/story/out-with-a-bang/|date=11 January 2012|first=Matt|last=Turner|accessdate=18 April 2012}} and has two sons and two grandchildren.{{cite web|url=https://www.paralympic.org.au/team/libby-kosmala|title=Libby Kosmala|publisher=Australian Paralympic Committee|accessdate=16 April 2012}}{{cite web|url=https://www.paralympic.org/news/grandma-libby-guns-gold|title=Grandma Libby Guns for Gold|publisher=International Paralympic Committee|date=15 April 2012|accessdate=18 April 2012}}

He participated in the 1976 Toronto Games in athletics events, and also as a member of the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team.{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/search.php?sport=all&games=all&medal=all&npc=all&name=Kosmala&fname=Stan&gender=all|title=Athlete Search Results|publisher=International Paralympic Committee|accessdate=16 April 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://wheelchairscanjump.com/rosters/WCJ_TR01_Paralympics-Men_A.pdf|title=Team Rosters:Paralympic Games (Men) 1960–1980|publisher=Wheelchairs Can Jump|first1=Stan|last1=Labanowich|first2=Armand|last2=Thiboutot|accessdate=21 April 2012|format=PDF}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/results.php?eclass=SH1&sport=shooting&competition=2000PG&gender=x&discipline=&event=Air%20Rifle%20Prone|title=Results for 2000 Mixed Air Rifle Prone SH1- event|publisher=International Paralympic Committee|accessdate=16 April 2012}}