Ryszard Tomaszewski (born 20 August 1951) is a retired Polish Paralympic powerlifter, discus thrower and shot putter.

He was a triple Paralympic champion in powerlifting and a two-time medalist in athletics.

[1] In 1971, he was involved in an accident at work in Żelazno where he and a team of other geologists went to research the construction of a bridge near the town.

They were both rescued from the water but they were both unconscious, the technician had lost a lot of blood from the accident but Tomaszewski had a suspected broken vertebra.

Once he reached to the nearest hospital, the doctor who examined him confirmed that he had suffered a spinal cord injury.