Józef Olejniczak (5 September 1918 – 13 March 2001) was a

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. He was the 1950 Polish champion.

Career

Olejniczak became the champion of Poland after he won gold at the

Polish Individual Speedway Championship The Individual Speedway Polish Championship (Polish: ''Indywidualne Mistrzostwa Polski, IMP'') is an annual speedway event held each year organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1932. The current Polish Champion is Bartosz Zmarzlik ( S ...

in 1950, during the 1950 Polish speedway season. From 1949 to 1954, he won six consecutive

Team Speedway Polish Championship The Team Speedway Polish Championship (Polish: ''Drużynowe Mistrzostwa Polski, DMP'') is an annual speedway event held each year in different Polish clubs organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1948. The team winning the league is awarded ...

s, as part of the

Unia Leszno Unia Leszno are a motorcycle speedway team established in 1938 and based in Leszno, Poland. They compete in the Polish Ekstraliga and are the league champions from the 2018 Speedway Ekstraliga season. The team's home track is at the Stadion Alfr ...

team that dominated the Polish leagues from the 1949 Polish speedway season, through to the 1954 Polish speedway season. The Leszno team included riders such as

Alfred Smoczyk Alfred Smoczyk (11 October 1928 – 26 September 1950) was an international speedway rider from Poland. Speedway career Smoczyk was the first champion of Poland, winning the Polish Individual Speedway Championship in 1949. In 1950, he was k ...

Jan Malinowski Jan Malinowski (April 24, 1931 – May 1, 2018) was an international speedway rider from Poland. Speedway career Malinowski finished runner-up in the Polish Individual Speedway Championship in 1959. He was part of the Polish team that reached ...

and

Henryk Żyto Henryk Żyto (1936-2018) was an international speedway rider from Poland. Speedway career Żyto reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1960 Individual Speedway World Championship. He was the Polish champion in 1963 after ...

References

1918 births 2001 deaths Polish speedway riders Unia Leszno riders {{Speedway-stub