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Józef Olejniczak
Józef Olejniczak (5 September 1918 – 13 March 2001) was a motorcycle speedway rider from Poland. He was the 1950 Polish champion. Career Olejniczak became the champion of Poland after he won gold at the Polish Individual Speedway Championship in 1950, during the 1950 Polish speedway season. From 1949 to 1954, he won six consecutive Team Speedway Polish Championships, as part of the Unia Leszno team that dominated the Polish leagues from the 1949 Polish speedway season, through to the 1954 Polish speedway season. The Leszno team included riders such as Alfred Smoczyk, Jan Malinowski and Henryk Żyto. In 2021, the Unia Leszno club applied to the authorities for the square outside the Alfred Smoczyk Stadium Alfred Smoczyk Stadium () is a stadium in Leszno, Poland. It is currently used for speedway matches and is the home stadium of Unia Leszno. The stadium has a capacity of 16,700 people. The stadium is located on ''ulica Strzelecka 7''. Histor ... to be named aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leszno
Leszno (, , ) is a historic city in western Poland, seat of Leszno County within the Greater Poland Voivodeship. It is the seventh-largest city in the province with an estimated population of 62,200, as of 2021. Leszno is a former residential city of prominent Polish magnate families of Leszczyński and Sułkowski family, Sułkowski, including King Stanisław Leszczyński, under whose patronage it flourished to become one of the major economic and cultural centers of Greater Poland, as reflected in the variety of landmarks, especially of the Baroque period. Located on a Expressway S5 (Poland), highway and Wrocław–Poznań railway, railway line at about half the distance between the two main cities of western Poland, Poznań and Wrocław, Leszno is the largest city of south-western Greater Poland and a major location for industry, services and tourism. It is particularly well known as the location of an annual air show with attendance reaching tens of thousands of people from var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Poland's most accomplished team, winning 18 Team Speedway Polish Championships (as of 2022). History 1949 to 1962 The club competed in the inaugural 1948 Polish speedway season, under the name of LKM Leszno and won the silver medal. The following year they captured the gold medal during the 1949 Polish speedway season and Leszno rider Alfred Smoczyk won the Polish Individual Speedway Championship. The team dominated the Championship during the following period and won six successive league titles from 1949 to 1954. The club later won bronze medals in 1958 Polish speedway season, 1958 and 1962 Polish speedway season, 1962. 1963 to 1978 The 1960s were a much quieter time for the club as ŻKS ROW Rybnik, Rybnik dominated Polish speedway. Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Individual Speedway Championship ...
The Individual Speedway Polish Championship ( Polish: ''Indywidualne Mistrzostwa Polski, IMP'') is an annual speedway event held each year organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1932. The current Polish Champion is Maciej Janowski, who won in 2024. Tomasz Gollob is the most successful rider in the history of the competition, having won it a record eight times. Previous winners Medals classification References {{International speedway Poland Individual An individual is one that exists as a distinct entity. Individuality (or self-hood) is the state or quality of living as an individual; particularly (in the case of humans) as a person unique from other people and possessing one's own needs or g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. In 2000, the First Division was renamed Ekstraliga, and the number of teams was reduced. The team winning the league is awarded a gold medal and declared Polish Team Champions. Teams finishing second and third are awarded silver and bronze medals respectively. Previous winners See also * Polish Speedway First League * Polish Speedway Second League References {{International speedway Team A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal. As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to in ... 1948 establishments in Poland Sports leagues established in 1948 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 use only one gear and have no brakes. Racing takes place on a flat oval track usually consisting of soil, dirt, loosely packed shale, or crushed rock (mostly used in Australia and New Zealand). Competitors use this surface to slide their machines sideways, powersliding or broadsiding into the bends. On the straight sections of the track, the motorcycles reach speeds of up to . There are now both domestic and international competitions in a number of countries, including the Speedway World Cup, whilst the highest overall scoring individual in the Speedway Grand Prix events is pronounced the world champion. Speedway is popular in Central Europe, Central and Northern Europe and to a lesser extent in Australia and North America. A variant of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950 Polish Speedway Season
The 1950 Polish Speedway season was the 1950 season of motorcycle speedway in Poland. Individual Polish Individual Speedway Championship The 1950 Individual Speedway Polish Championship was held in Kraków on 8 October. Result and heat details E – retired or mechanical failure • F – fell • N – non-starter Team Speedway Polish Championship The 1950 Team Speedway Polish Championship was the third edition of the Team Polish Championship. Rules In First and Second League, matches were played with part three teams. It made up team four riders plus one reserve. Events consisted of 12 races. In one day were played three three-cornered matches. For winning a match a team received 3 points, for second place 2 points and for third 1 point. In every heat the score was 4–3–2–1 and 0 in a no-completion heat. The drivers with main squad of a team started in the match four times. The quantity of small points was added up. First League Medalists S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 Polish Speedway Season
The 1949 Polish Speedway season was the 1949 season of motorcycle speedway in Poland. Individual Polish Individual Speedway Championship The 1949 Individual Speedway Polish Championship was held in Leszno on 23 October 1949. It was the fifth running of the Championship. Result E – retired or mechanical failure • F – fell • N – non-starter Team Speedway Polish Championship The 1949 Team Speedway Polish Championship was the second edition of the Team Polish Championship. In First and Second League, matches were played with part three teams. Teams were made up of 3 riders plus 1 reserve. The event consisted of 9 races. In one day were played three three-cornered matches. For winning a match a team received 3 points, for second place 2 points, and for third 1 point. In every heat scoring was 3–2–1 and 0 if no-completion heat. The drivers with the main squad of a team started in a match 3 times. The quantity of small points was added up. First ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 Polish Speedway Season
The 1954 Polish Speedway season was the 1954 season of motorcycle speedway in Poland. Individual Polish Individual Speedway Championship The 1954 Individual Speedway Polish Championship was held over five legs. *Wrocław, 30 May *Katowice, 20 June *Leszno, 8 August *Bydgoszcz, 3 October *Warsawa, 17 October Criterium of Aces The Criterium of Aces was won by Edward Kupczyński. Team Team Speedway Polish Championship The 1954 Team Speedway Polish Championship was the seventh edition of the Team Polish Championship. Rules In First League, matches were played with part two teams, with it playing it matches return. Teams were made up of six drivers plus two reserves. The score of heat: 3–2–1–0. Mecz consisted of 9 heats. For winning a game a team received 2 points, draw – 1 point, loss – 0 points. The drivers from main squads started in match three times. The quantity of small points was added up. First League Medalists References {{Speedway in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Smoczyk
Alfred Smoczyk (11 October 1928 – 26 September 1950) was an international motorcycle speedway rider from Poland. Speedway career Smoczyk was the first champion of Poland, winning the Polish Individual Speedway Championship in 1949. In 1950, he was killed in a motorcycle accident in the Kąkolewski forest, near Gostyń. Later that year on 30 September, the Polish President Bolesław Bierut posthumously awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In 1951, a tournament in Leszno Leszno (, , ) is a historic city in western Poland, seat of Leszno County within the Greater Poland Voivodeship. It is the seventh-largest city in the province with an estimated population of 62,200, as of 2021. Leszno is a former residential cit ... was named in his memory and in 1953 the Stadion im. Alfreda Smoczyka was named after him. See also * List of recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta References 1928 births 1950 deaths Polish speedway riders Unia Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Malinowski
Jan Malinowski (24 April 1931 – 1 May 2018) was an international speedway rider from Poland. Speedway career Malinowski finished runner-up in the Polish Individual Speedway Championship in 1959. He was part of the Polish team that reached the final of the 1960 Speedway World Team Cup. Malinowski toured the United Kingdom with the Polish national team during 1960. He died in 2018. World final appearances World Team Cup * 1960 - Gothenburg, Ullevi (with Konstanty Pociejkewicz / Mieczysław Połukard / Marian Kaiser Marian Kaiser (14 January 1933 – 10 April 1991) was an international motorcycle speedway rider from Poland. He earned 31 international caps for the Poland national speedway team. Speedway career Kaiser reached the final of the Speedway Worl ...) - 4th - 7pts (0) References 1931 births 2018 deaths Polish speedway riders Burials at Służew Old Cemetery Sportspeople from Grudziądz Motorcycle racers from Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henryk Żyto
Henryk Żyto (1936–2018) was an international motorcycle speedway rider from Poland. He earned 32 international caps for the Poland national speedway team. Speedway career Żyto reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1960 Individual Speedway World Championship. Also in 1960, he rode for Coventry Bees in the British speedway leagues, during the 1960 Speedway National League and won both the Midland Riders' Championship and the Midland Cup. He was the Polish champion during the 1963 Polish speedway season, after he won gold medal at the Polish Individual Speedway Championship. World final appearances Individual World Championship * 1960 - London, Wembley Stadium - 13th - 4pts * 1962 - London, Wembley Stadium - Reserve, did not ride World Team Cup * 1961 - Wrocław, Olympic Stadium (with Marian Kaiser / Mieczysław Połukard / Florian Kapała / Stanisław Tkocz) - Winner - 32pts (12) * 1963 - Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Smoczyk Stadium
Alfred Smoczyk Stadium () is a stadium in Leszno, Poland. It is currently used for speedway matches and is the home stadium of Unia Leszno. The stadium has a capacity of 16,700 people. The stadium is located on ''ulica Strzelecka 7''. History Alfred Smoczyk (1928–1950) was the first Polish speedway superstar. He successfully competed on Dutch tracks in the late 1940s, but died in a road accident in October 1950. He was the first Individual Polish Champion after World War II (in 1949). The year after his death in 1951, the Alfred Smoczyk Memorial event was first held and shortly afterwards in April 1952, plans were put into action to build a new speedway stadium. The opening of the new stadium took place on 19 April 1953. In 1960, the stadium hosted a qualifying round of the Speedway World Championship. In 1974/75 the track was replaced and the stands were expanded to increase the capacity to 40,000. In 1977, as part of the national harvest celebrations and the visit of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
