TZ Ostrovia Ostrów Wielkopolski formerly the Klub Motorowy Ostrów Wielkopolski are a Polish
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 ...
team based in
Ostrów Wielkopolski
Ostrów Wielkopolski () (often abbreviated ''Ostrów Wlkp.'', formerly called simply ''Ostrów'', german: Ostrowo, Latin: ''Ostrovia'') is a city in west-central Poland with 70,982 inhabitants (2021), situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship; ...
who currently race in
Ekstraliga. The club never won
Team Polish Champion title. They Klub Motorowy Ostrów Wielkopolski folded in 2009 but the town formed the TZ Ostrovia Ostrów Wielkopolski during the same year of 2009.
Stadium
The Municipal Stadium in Ostrów Wielkopolski is located on ''ulica Piłsudskiego (Piłsudski street)''. It contains 12,000 seats. The track is 372 metres long and has a granite surface. The track record was made by
Robert Miśkowiak
Robert Miśkowiak (born 21 November 1983 in Rawicz, Poland) is a former motorcycle speedway rider form Poland.
Career
In 2003, he reached the final of the Speedway Under-21 World Championship. The following year he became the World Under-21 Cham ...
(63.05 sec on 28 June 2009).
2022 Squad
Senior Squad
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Tomasz Gapiński
Tomasz Gapiński (born 8 July 1982 in Piła, Poland''Świat Żużla'', No 1 (73) / 2008, pages 20-21, ) is an international motorcycle speedway rider who was riding in 2007 Speedway Grand Prix of Europe. He was won Team Polish Champion titles ...
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Oliver Berntzon
Oliver Berntzon (born 2 August 1993) is an international speedway rider from Sweden.
Speedway career
Berntzon won the silver medal at the Swedish Championship in 2018. He qualified for the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix and the 2021 Speedway Gran ...
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Tim Sørensen
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Grzegorz Walasek
Grzegorz Walasek (born 29 August 1976) is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider who has ridden for the Polish national team and has also competed in the Speedway Grand Prix series.
Career
Born in Krosno Odrzańskie, Poland, Walasek began his senio ...
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Chris Holder
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Filip Hjelmland
Filip Hjelmland (born 10 September 1998) is a speedway rider from Sweden.
Speedway career
Hjelmland came to prominence in 2017 when he won a silver medal at the European U19 Championship.
He became a regular member of the Sweden national ...
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Kacper Grzelak Kacper is a predominantly Polish masculine given name a variant of Caspar. Notable people called Kacper include:
* Kacper Denhoff (1587–1645), Baltic-German noble of the Holy Roman Empire; a noble of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; Governor ...
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Jakub Krawczyk
Jacob is a common male given name and a less well-known surname. It is a cognate of James, derived from Late Latin ''Iacobus'', from Greek ''Iakobos'', from Hebrew (''Yaʿaqōḇ''), the name of the Hebrew patriarch, Jacob son of Isaac and R ...
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Jakub Poczta
Jacob is a common male given name and a less well-known surname. It is a cognate of James, derived from Late Latin ''Iacobus'', from Greek ''Iakobos'', from Hebrew (''Yaʿaqōḇ''), the name of the Hebrew patriarch, Jacob son of Isaac and R ...
Honours
See also
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Speedway in Poland
Speedway is one of the most popular sports in Poland. The Ekstraliga has the highest average attendances for any sport in Poland. The first meetings in Poland were held in the 1930s.Kevin Meynell & Marcin Babnis (7 July 2004) History of Polish ...
References
Polish speedway teams
Sport in Ostrów Wielkopolski
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