Paul Greifzu Stadium ( ger, Paul Greifzu Stadion) is a multi-purpose stadium (primarily

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 ...

) in

Stralsund Stralsund (; Swedish: ''Strålsund''), officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German: ''Hansestadt Stralsund''), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neub ...

, Germany. The stadium is located on the western side of the city, off the Barther Straße. The MC Nordstern Stralsund e.V use the facility.

History

In 1957, construction began on the stadium, organised by the city council with lottery funds. The following year in April 1958, the Stralsund Speedway Club was founded and the stadium opened by Mayor Motczinski on 6 July 1958 with an attendance of 20,000. The name came from a car racing driver called Paul Greifzu who died in a race Dessau in 1952. The stadium has been a significant venue for

and hosted important events. These included a qualifying round of the

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and a qualifying round of the

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in 1969. MC Nordster rider Hartmut Ernst won the East German Individual Speedway Championship in 1977 and the track held the final rounds of the naional individual and team Championships many times. The team based at the stadium won the

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in 2015 and 2022. In recent years the stadium continues to hold major events, which have included the 2016 Team Speedway Junior European Championship final, a final round of the 2021 Speedway Under-21 World Championship and the

2023 European Team Speedway Championship The 2023 European Team Speedway Championship was the second edition of the European motorcycle speedway team event to determine the team champions of Europe. Poland successfully defended their title. Semi final A *15 April, Gdańsk, Poland ...

final. On 22 April 2023, the 385 metre track record was broken by

Dominik Kubera Dominik Kubera (born 15 April 1999) is an international speedway rider from Poland. Speedway career Kubera won a bronze and silver medal at the World Under 21 Championship in 2019 and 2020 respectively. He had previously won the 2018 Indivi ...

, who recorded 66.47 sec.

Gallery

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References

{{Motorcycle speedway tracks History of sport in East Germany Stralsund 1958 establishments in East Germany Sports venues completed in 1958 Buildings and structures in Vorpommern-Rügen Sports venues in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Speedway venues in Germany Sports venues in East Germany