Bartłomiej Kowalski (born 4 March 2002) is an international
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 ...
rider from Poland.
Career
Kowalski came to prominence in 2022, when he was part of the Polish team that won the
Team Junior European Championship.
Previously he had ridden for
Wanda Kraków
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in 2018 and
Włókniarz Częstochowa
Eltrox CKM Włókniarz Częstochowa is a motorcycle speedway team based in Częstochowa, Poland. They were established in 1946. They compete in the Speedway Ekstraliga, Polish Ekstraliga. The club has won Team Speedway Polish Championship, Polish ...
from 2020 until 2021.
[ In 2022, he joined ]Wrocław
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.
In 2023, he joined Indianerna
Indianerna (the Indians) are a Swedish motorcycle speedway team based in Kumla, Sweden. The club's official name is Kumla MSK and it was founded in 1936 which makes the club one of the oldest motorsport clubs in Sweden. Indianerna was one of the ...
for the 2023 Swedish speedway season. In August 2023, he won his first Team Speedway Under-21 World Championship
The Team Speedway Under-21 World Championship is a speedway competition to determine the World Championship for national Under-21 teams. The sport's equivalent of the Under-21 World Cup in football, as of 2022 the title is awarded to the winners ...
, winning the 2023 Speedway of Nations 2, in addition to winning a second U23 European team title.Silver Helmet
The Silver Helmet ( pl, Turniej o Srebrny Kask, SK) is an annual speedway event held each year organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1966.
Final Meeting held in PC Team U-21 3rd from last season.
Previous winners
See also
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and Polish Junior Championship, during the 2023 Polish speedway season.
Major results
World individual Championship
*2021 Speedway Grand Prix
The 2021 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 27th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 76th FIM Speedway World Championship. The series was dominated by Polish venues once again with six of the 11 races taking place in Poland. Grea ...
- =32nd
*2023 speedway grand prix
The 2023 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 29th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 78th FIM Speedway World Championship. It was the second series promoted by Discovery Sports Events.
Bartosz Zmarzlik was the defending champ ...
- =21st
References
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Living people
2002 births
Polish speedway riders
Sportspeople from Tarnów