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Mariusz Puszakowski
Mariusz Puszakowski (born 25 May 1978) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Poland. Speedway career He rode in the top tier of British Speedway riding for the Ipswich Witches The Ipswich Witches are a British speedway club based at Foxhall Stadium near Ipswich, Suffolk. They compete in the British SGB Premiership. Meetings are staged on most Thursdays from March until October, normally commencing at 7.30pm (first r ... during the 2005 Elite League speedway season and Arena Essex Hammers during the 2006 Elite League speedway season. During the 2006 season he broke his leg in a league match, which resulted in his last season in Britain. He continued to ride in Poland until the end of the 2019 Polish speedway season. References 1978 births Living people Polish speedway riders Ipswich Witches riders Lakeside Hammers riders {{Speedway-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golub-Dobrzyń
Golub-Dobrzyń () is a town in northern Poland, located on the Drwęca. Situated in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (since 1999), it was previously in the Torun Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is the capital of Golub-Dobrzyń County and has a population of 13,060. Golub-Dobrzyń was established on May 5, 1951 through merging two neighbouring towns having faced each other across the river Drwęca for centuries, namely Golub located in the Chełmno Land within historical Pomerelia and Dobrzyń located in the Dobrzyń Land within historical Kuyavia. History History of Golub The village Golub (german: Gollub; la, villa golube), populated by Poles, was first mentioned in a document from 1258; Chełmno Land, or Culmerland, had been in the hands of the Teutonic Knights since 1231. The Teutonic Knights built a castle (1296–1306) and elevated it to town status. In 1421 all privileges of the town were confirmed by Grand Master Michael Küchmeister von Sternberg. Golub was severely da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brovst Speedway Klub
Brovst Speedway Club also known as Nordjysk Elite Speedway is a motorcycle speedway club from Brovst in Denmark, who competed in the Danish Speedway League until 2010, and then again in 2021. They are three times champions of Denmark, having won the title in 1990, 1998 and 2000. Track The home venue of the club is the Brovst Speedway Center, which is located north of Brovst on the Over Søen 12, from Brovst to Tranum. History 1957 to 1991 The club was founded by name in 1991 but previous to this the origins of the club were started in 1957, with the founding of the Han Herreds Motor Klub (HaMK). In 1973, HaMK opened a speedway track in Mou Kær, the club had previously ran Motocross events. The new spedway track was a small track used mainly for 50cc machines. Two visitors to the track were two young boys called Hans Nielsen and his older brother Jens Henry Nielsen In 1977, the venue experienced some issues about being able to use the track, which actually resulted in the mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Speedway Riders
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Living People
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1978 Births
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2019 Polish Speedway Season
The 2019 Polish Speedway season was the 2019 season of motorcycle speedway in Poland. Individual Polish Individual Speedway Championship The 2019 Individual Speedway Polish Championship final was held on 14 July at Leszno. Janusz Kołodziej won the Polish Championship for the fourth time. Golden Helmet The 2019 Golden Golden Helmet ( pl, Turniej o Złoty Kask, ZK) organised by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) was the 2019 event for the league's leading riders. The final was held at Gdańsk on the 11 October. Krzysztof Kasprzak won the Golden Helmet. Junior Championship * winner - Jakub Miśkowiak Silver Helmet * winner - Dominik Kubera Bronze Helmet * winner - Jakub Miśkowiak Pairs Polish Pairs Speedway Championship The 2019 Polish Pairs Speedway Championship was the 2019 edition of the Polish Pairs Speedway Championship. The final was held on 11 May at Bydgoszcz. Team Team Speedway Polish Championship The 2019 Team Speedway Polish Championship was the 2019 edition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Elite League Speedway Season
The 2006 Elite League speedway season was the 72nd season of the top division of Motorcycle speedway, speedway in the United Kingdom and governed by the The Speedway Control Board, Speedway Control Board (SCB), in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA). Season summary In 2006, the league consisted of eleven teams, after the newly named Reading Bulldogs, moved up from the Premier League (speedway), Premier League. The Championship was won by the Peterborough Panthers by a single race point in the play-off final. Peterborough and Reading battled each other throughout the season finishing level on points in the regular season table before Peterborough edged Reading in the Play off final. Peterborough had a strong all round squad and included Danish trio of Hans Andersen (speedway rider), Hans Andersen, Jesper B. Monberg, Jesper Jensen and Niels Kristian Iversen, in addition to Australian Ryan Sullivan. Reading who had come up from the division below had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Elite League Speedway Season
The 2005 Elite League speedway season was the 71st season of the top division of speedway in the United Kingdom and governed by the Speedway Control Bureau (SCB), in conjunction with the British Speedway Promoters' Association (BSPA). Season summary In 2005, the league consisted of ten teams, with the title being decided by a play-off between the top four. Belle Vue Aces topped the regular season table and won the Knockout Cup. Their world champion rider Jason Crump was in superb form throughout the season. Fellow Australian Leigh Adams topped the league averages for Swindon for arguably the second consecutive season but it was Coventry Bees that experienced their first title success since the glory days of the late 1980s. Coventry had finished bottom of the table during the previous season and with the exception of finishing runner-up in 2003 had been starved of success. The club made a change that proved instrumental, they brought in Scott Nicholls from Ipswich and supported b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motorcycle Speedway
Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only one gear and have no brakes. Racing takes place on a flat oval track usually consisting of dirt, loosely packed shale, or crushed rock (mostly used in Australia and New Zealand). Competitors use this surface to slide their machines sideways, powersliding or broadsiding into the bends. On the straight sections of the track, the motorcycles reach speeds of up to . There are now both domestic and international competitions in a number of countries, including the Speedway World Cup, whilst the highest overall scoring individual in the Speedway Grand Prix events is pronounced the world champion. Speedway is popular in Central and Northern Europe and to a lesser extent in Australia and North America. A variant of track racing, speedway is adm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vojens Speedway Klub
Vojens (german: Woyens) is a railway town in Denmark with a population of 7,475 (1 January 2022).BY3: Population 1. January by rural and urban areas, area and population density The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark It was the main town of the now abolished Vojens Municipality, now the second largest town of in |
Arena Essex Hammers
The Lakeside Hammers were a speedway team who most recently raced in the SGB Championship in 2018. They were founded (as the Arena-Essex Hammers) by promoter Wally Mawdsley and stock car promoter Chick Woodroffe. The team were nicknamed the Hammers after the West Ham Hammers, a speedway team that closed twelve years earlier. The team's home track, the Arena Essex Raceway, closed shortly before the end of the 2018 season and the team did not compete in a league in 2019. History From foundation in 1984 until January 2007, the club was known as the Arena-Essex Hammers but new promoter Stuart Douglas renamed them the 'Lakeside' Hammers at the Arena-Essex Raceway. The Arena Essex Raceway was built in 1978 to stage banger racing. The original Arena-Essex Hammers promotion touted them as the successors to or the reincarnation of the old West Ham Speedway which had closed in the early 1970s - the team took the Hammers nickname, the race colours of white crossed hammers on red and blue hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KS Toruń
Apator Toruń, historically KS Toruń, known also in the past as Unibax Toruń due to ownership changes, is a Polish Motorcycle speedway, speedway team from Toruń, Poland. Team information * Name: Klub Sportowy KS Toruń SA * Address: 87-100 Toruń, ul. Pera Jonssona 7 * Home track: MotoArena im. Mariana Rose; ul. Pera Jonssona 7, Toruń * Home arena capacity: 15500 Honours * Golden Medal: 1986, 1990, 2001, 2008 * Silver Medal: 1995, 1996, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2016 * Bronze Medal: 1983, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2010, 2012 History Speedway motorcycles roared in Toruń as early as 1930, where they raced in classes according to engine size. The sport, called Track racing, "Dirt-track" at the time, carried on in Toruń up until World War II. Immediately after the war, racing resumed and the Toruń's Motorcycle Club (Toruński Klub Motocyklowy) was formed. The current speedway track in Toruń saw its first race in 1950 when races were move from Bema street to the then army st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
