BUCLAW Dorota

Date of Birth: 16 Oct 1977

Age: 43

Gender: Female

Sport Class: 1

Place of birth: BYDGOSZCZ

Birth Country:

Poland

Place of residence : SOLEC KUJAWSKI

Residence Country:

Poland

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Table Tennis	Women's Singles - Classes 1-2	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 6	Women's Singles - Classes 1-2 Group D #8 POL BUCLAW DBUCLAW Dorota Sport Class: 1 3 BRA da SILVA OLIVEIRAda SILVA OLIVEIRA Catia Cristina Sport Class: 2 1	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 6	Women's Singles - Classes 1-2 Group D #12 POL BUCLAW DBUCLAW Dorota Sport Class: 1 3 FIN TAPOLA ATAPOLA Aino Sport Class: 1 0	Finished
	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Table 7	Women's Singles - Classes 1-2 Quarterfinal 3 #15 POL BUCLAW DBUCLAW Dorota Sport Class: 1 1 RPC PUSHPASHEVA NPUSHPASHEVA Nadezhda Sport Class: 2 3	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Paralympic Games
5	Singles - Classes 1-2	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
5	Singles - Classes 1-2	2012	London, GBR
World Championships
3	Singles - Classes 1-2	2018	Lasko, SLO
5	Singles - Classes 1-2	2014	Beijing, CHN
European Championships
1	Singles - Class 1	2019	Helsingborg, SWE
2	Singles - Classes 1-2	2017	Lasko, SLO

Dori (Facebook profile, 14 Mar 2020)

Travelling, reading. (Athlete, 23 May 2016)

Occupation:

Sports Management - University of Bydgoszcz, Poland

Languages spoken:

English, French, German, Polish

IKS-AWF Warszawa [Poland]

Andrzej Ochal [national], POL

Left (magazynsportowiec.pl, 14 Nov 2019)

Sporting relatives:

Her uncle Ryszard Marczak represented Poland in athletics [marathon] at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. (Athlete, 23 May 2016; przegladsportowy.pl, 26 Sep 2016; SportsDeskOnline, 31 Mar 2021)

1999 for Poland, in Murcia, Spain (Athlete, 23 May 2016)

During her first match at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London she fractured fingers after hitting her left hand on the table. She managed to play one further match in London despite the injury. (magazynsportowiec.pl, 14 Nov 2019)

She took up the sport in 1997 at age 19 in Bydgoszcz, Poland. (Athlete, 23 May 2016)

She was an active child and played basketball before her first accident. After her first accident her uncle Ryszard Marczak encouraged her to get involved in Para sport. "In Bydgoszcz [Poland] I tried swimming, running and table tennis. It turned out that I stayed with table tennis." After her second accident, which prevented her from competing at the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney, she initially did not want to play table tennis again. "For a long time I could not return to sport. I did not want to because I could remember what it was like to play standing up. I didn't want to ruin those memories and I was really afraid. However, my neighbour Alicja kept encouraging me to go and play. Eventually, for the sake of peace, I agreed. And then it turned out that the wheelchair was not an obstacle." (magazynsportowiec.pl, 14 Nov 2019)

To win a medal at the Paralympic Games. (magazynsportowiec.pl, 14 Nov 2019)

Winning gold at the 2019 European Championships in Helsingborg, Sweden. (magazynsportowiec.pl, 14 Nov 2019)

Slovenian Para table tennis player Mateja Pintar. (pttp.org.pl, 2016)

General Interest

Classification
TT1 (ipttc.org, 01 Apr 2020)

Type of Impairment
Spinal Cord Injuries (Athlete, 23 May 2016)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (Athlete, 23 May 2016)

Impairment Details
At age 17 in 1994, during a basketball match she was pushed into a wall by an opponent and sustained nerve damage in her right arm. In December 1999 she was travelling in a car with a friend when the car crossed railway tracks. She hit her head on the inner roof of the car, injuring her spinal cord. (Athlete, 03 Apr 2011)

General
FRIEND AND ASSISTANT
After her first accident, in hospital she met Dorota Kubicka, who worked there as a physiotherapist. Kubicka helped her to recover and they became friends. Her second accident in 1999 happened when she was a passenger in a car driven by Kubicka. After Buclaw left hospital, Kubicka helped with her rehabilitation and the pair began living together. Kubicka assists her in daily life and at competitions, and accompanied her to the 2012 and 2016 Paralympic Games. "Unfortunately, even if I win, Dorota [Kubicka] doesn't receive a medal. It's not like in Para athletics, where guides of blind runners are awarded with medals. Only I can give her a medal for all that she has done for me." (przegladsportowy.pl, 26 Sep 2016; magazynsportowiec.pl, 14 Nov 2019)

HANDEDNESS
She was right-handed, but had to learn to use her left hand for writing and playing table tennis after her first accident. The accident happened shortly before her school exams. "I was learning to write again. I was rewriting entire books to train my hand." (magazynsportowiec.pl, 14 Nov 2019)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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