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Nickname | KJ | ||||||||||||||
Born | Carmichaels, Pennsylvania, United States | November 19, 1982||||||||||||||
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Country | United States | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Paralympic archery | ||||||||||||||
Disability | Spinal cord injury | ||||||||||||||
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Kevin "KJ" Polish Jr. (born November 19, 1982) is an American Paralympic archer.[1][2]
He began archery aged three by his father, Kevin Sr., who owned an archery shop and began competing aged eleven. In 1999, Polish was involved in a car crash and suffered life-changing injuries and he went back to competitive archery in 2000 after his rehabilitation. He won his first medal in the 2005 World Archery Championships along with Dave Cousins and Braden Gellenthien.