The Marian Spychała Speedway Stadium ( pl, Stadion im. Mariana Spychały w Opolu) formerly the Stadion Kolejarz, is an 8,000-capacity

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 ...

stadium in

Opole Opole (; german: Oppeln ; szl, Ôpole) ; * Silesian: ** Silesian PLS alphabet: ''Ôpole'' ** Steuer's Silesian alphabet: ''Uopole'' * Silesian German: ''Uppeln'' * Czech: ''Opolí'' * Latin: ''Oppelia'', ''Oppolia'', ''Opulia'' is a city loc ...

, Poland. The venue is used by the speedway team

Kolejarz Opole Kolejarz Opole (Railwayman Opole) is a motorcycle speedway team based in Opole, Poland. They currently race in the Polish Speedway Second League (2. Liga). History The club race at the Municipal Speedway Stadium or Mariana Spychała Stadium na ...

, who compete in the

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 ...

History

The stadium was built before

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II and featured an athletics track. During the war the stadium (which could hold 2,600 spectators of which 600 were seated) was destroyed. The stadium was rebuilt as a speedway stadium in 1957. It underwent an expansion in 1960 with 5,000 seats and 3,000 standing areas before becoming the home of Kolejarz Opole in 1961. Since 1988 the speedway track has measured 321 metres. On 2 July 2015, the stadium was renamed after a former rider Marian Spychała, who was a prominent team manager for Kolejarz Opole. On 18 April 2022, the stadium hosted the Golden Helmet, which was won by the world champion

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 ...

. He broke the track record during the event, recording a time of 59.39 seconds. The stadium hosted the Golden Helmet again in 2023 and 2024.

References

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