The 2019 Betard Wrocław FIM Speedway Grand Prix of Poland was the fifth race of the

2019 Speedway Grand Prix The 2019 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 25th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 74th FIM Speedway World Championship. It was the nineteenth series under the promotion of Benfield Sports International, an IMG company. The ti ...

season. It took place on August 3rd at the

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Riders

Second reserve

Max Fricke Max Fricke (born 29 March 1996) is an Australian speedway rider. He is a World team champion, twice Australian champion and four times Australian Under-21 Champion. Career Juniors Fricke competed in junior levels of motocross and speedway in ...

replaced

Greg Hancock Gregory Alan Hancock (born June 3, 1970 in Whittier, California) is an American former professional motorcycle speedway rider. As of 2023, he was one of only six riders to have won the individual World Championship four or more times. In addit ...

. The Speedway Grand Prix Commission nominated Makym Drabik as the wild card, and Przemysław Liszka and

Mateusz Cierniak Mateusz Cierniak (born on 3 October 2002) is an international speedway rider from Poland. Speedway career In 2021, Cierniak finished second in the Krosno round of the World Under 21 Championship. He was denied the chance to compete for the ti ...

both as Track Reserves.

Results

The Grand Prix was won by

Bartosz Zmarzlik Bartosz Zmarzlik (; born 12 April 1995) is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider and three-time World Champion (2019, 2020 and 2022). He has been decorated with the Order of Polonia Restituta, V class. Biography Born in Szczecin, Poland, Zmarzlik i ...

, who beat

Martin Vaculík Martin Vaculík (born 5 April 1990) is a Slovak motorcycle speedway rider who is riding for the Stal Gorzów Wielkopolski in the Speedway Ekstraliga, Polish Speedway Ekstraliga. Career On the 6 May 2008, Vaculík gained a Polski Związek Motoro ...

, Leon Madsen and Janusz Kołodziej in the final. Emil Sayfutdinov had initially topped the scoring charts along with Kołodziej, however he was eliminated in the semi-finals. It was the fifth Grand Prix win of Zmarzlik's career. Zmarzlik's win resulted in him moving joint-top of the overall standings, tied on 61 points with Sayfutdinov and Madsen.

Heat details

Intermediate classification

References

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