Piotr Pawlicki Sr. (born 29 July 1963) 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 clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

rider from Poland.

Career

Pawlicki Sr. came to prominence in 1983, when he won the Polish Junior Individual Speedway Championship. He won a bronze medal in the prestigious Golden Helmet during the

1991 Polish speedway season The 1991 Polish Speedway season was the 1991 season of motorcycle speedway in Poland. Individual Polish Individual Speedway Championship The 1991 Individual Speedway Polish Championship final was held on 15 August at Toruń. Golden Helmet ...

. He spent his entire career riding for his nearby home club of

Unia Leszno Unia Leszno are a motorcycle speedway team established on 8 May 1938 and based in Leszno, Poland. The team's home track is at the Stadion Alfreda Smoczyka. They compete in the Ekstraliga (speedway), Ekstraliga (the highest division) and are Pol ...

, where he won three Polish league championships. He retired after suffering serious lumbar vertebrae and spinal cord injuries during the 1992

Polish Pairs Speedway Championship The Polish Pairs Speedway Championship ( Polish: ''Mistrzostwa Polski Par Klubowych, MPPK'') is an annual speedway event held each year in different Polish clubs organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1974. The participating teams are dr ...

Family

Both of his sons

Piotr Pawlicki Jr. Piotr Pawlicki (born 30 November 1994) is a Polish speedway rider. Career Born in Leszno, he is the son of former rider Piotr Pawlicki Sr. and the younger brother of Przemysław Pawlicki. He won the Polish Under-21 Championship in 2011, emul ...

and

Przemysław Pawlicki Przemysław Pawlicki (born 5 September 1991)''Świat Żużla'', No 1 (77) 2009, pages 14-15 is a motorcycle speedway rider from Poland. Career Pawlicki passed his speedway license (''Licencja "Ż"'') in 2008, as a 16-year-old. On 20 July 20 ...

were professional speedway riders.

References

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