Krzysztof Słaboń or Chris Slabon (born 21 February 1981) is a former

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.

Speedway career

Słaboń also held a Canadian licence and rode under the Canadian flag during the

1999 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship The 1999 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship was the 23rd edition of the World motorcycle speedway Under-21 Championships. The event was won by Lee Richardson of England and he also gained qualification to the Speedway Grand Prix Challen ...

. He first 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 ra ...

during the 2002 Elite League speedway season, he would later return to the East Anglian club for the 2003 Elite League speedway season and

2010 Elite League speedway season 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...

s. His Polish career lasted from 1998 to 2011 and he rode mainly for Sparta Wrocław and

Polonia Bydgoszcz Polonia Bydgoszcz is a Polish sports club based in Bydgoszcz most known for its speedway team ŻKS Polonia Bydgoszcz which currently races in the 1. Liga. The club has won the Polish Speedway League Championship seven times, the latest in 2002, ...

Family

His father Robert Słaboń was also a speedway rider.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Słaboń, Krzysztof 1981 births Living people Polish speedway riders Canadian speedway riders Ipswich Witches riders