Martin Smolinski (born 6 December 1984, in

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) is a former international

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and

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rider from Germany. He is eight times champion of Germany.

Career

Smolinksi began riding in his natiove Germany for MSC Olching. He became the German junior champion in 2003 and after reaching the final 2003 Speedway Under-21 World Championship he signed for

Coventry Bees Coventry Bees were a motorcycle speedway team that existed from 1929 to 2018. They raced at Brandon Stadium, Brandon near Coventry, England. History A Coventry team was first formed in 1928 and competed in the inaugural season of the Southern ...

in England. Coventry retained him for the following two seasons and his form improved over the next two seasons. In 2006, he signed for his first Polish club

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and in 2007 became the German Champion for the first time. Also in 2007, he won the league and cup double with Coventry during the 2007 Elite League speedway season. He was a regular team member of the German speedway team at senior level and represented them in the annual

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. In 2010, he won his third German title and began concentrating mainly on Long track. He would win eight German speedway Championships but his finest success came in 2018 when he won the 2018 Individual Long Track World Championship.

Speedway Grand Prix

Major results

Speedway

World team championship

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

- 10th place (1 point in Event 1) *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

- 2nd place in Qualifying round 1 (14 points) *

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

- 8th place (2 points in Event 2) *

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

- 2nd place in Qualifying round 1 (9 points) *

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

- 2nd place in Qualifying round 1 (13 points) *

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

- 2nd place in Qualifying round 1 (12 points) *

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

- 2nd place in Qualifying round 1 (10 points)

Other

World U-21 World Championship *

- 15th place (2 points) *

- 6th place (9 points) *

- 15th place (2 points) Team U-21 World Championship *

- 2nd in Qualifying Round 1 (8 points) U-19 European Championship *

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

- 4th place (11 points + 2) *

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

- 13th place (4 points) *

- 16th place (2 points) European Pairs Championship *

- 10 points in Semi-Final 1 *

- 16 points in Semi-Final 2

Longtrack

Grand-Prix Series World Longtrack Best Grand-Prix Results * Herxheim First 2018, Second 2019 *

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First 2019 * Marianske Lazne First 2011 *

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First 2011, Third 2012 *

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First 2018, 2019, Second 2016, Third 2014 *

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First 2018 * Rzeszow First 2013 *

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Second 2012 World Longtrack Team Championship * 2010 Morizes (First) 49pts (rode with

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, Stephan Katt,

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) * 2011

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(First) 56pts (rode with Stephan Katt,

, Jorg Tebbe) * 2016 Marianske Lazne (Runners-up) 44pts (rode with

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, Jorg Tebbe, Stephan Katt)

Grasstrack

European Grasstrack Championship Finals * 2010

Third - 17pts * 2011

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First - 18pts * 2012

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Smolinski, Martin 1984 births Living people German speedway riders Coventry Bees riders Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship riders Sportspeople from Munich