The 1st Tournament for Bolesław Chrobry Crown - First King of Poland was the
2008
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version of the
Bolesław Chrobry Tournament. It took place on 29 June in the
Start Gniezno
Start Gniezno is a Polish motorcycle speedway team based in Gniezno who currently race in 1. Liga.
History 1958 to 1999
Speedway in Gniezno appeared during the inaugural 1948 Polish speedway season, a team called Unia Gniezno competed in the ...
Stadium in
Gniezno
Gniezno (; ; ) is a city in central-western Poland, about east of Poznań. Its population in 2021 was 66,769, making it the sixth-largest city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. The city is the administrative seat of Gniezno County (''powiat'') ...
,
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
. The Tournament was won by
Rafał Dobrucki
Rafał Dobrucki (born 27 December 1976 Poland) is a Polish former speedway rider. He earned four international caps for the Poland speedway team.
Career
On 25 July 1999 he won the Continental Final, which formed part of the 2000 Speedway ...
who beat
Rafał Okoniewski
Rafał Okoniewski (born 26 January 1980) is a Polish former motorcycle speedway, speedway rider.
Career
Okoniewski started riding in 1996 and is the son of former speedway rider Mariusz Okoniewski (1956–2006). He is the only rider to win the ...
and
Sebastian Ułamek
Sebastian Ułamek (born 20 November 1975) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Poland. He was a European individual Champion and earned 9 international caps for the Poland national speedway team.
Career
Ułamek rode in the Polish leagues f ...
.
The top Gniezno' rider
Piotr Paluch was ninth.
Heat details
* 29 June 2008 (Saturday)
* Best Time: 65.18 -
Rafał Dobrucki
Rafał Dobrucki (born 27 December 1976 Poland) is a Polish former speedway rider. He earned four international caps for the Poland speedway team.
Career
On 25 July 1999 he won the Continental Final, which formed part of the 2000 Speedway ...
in Heat 9
* Attendance: 5,000
* Referee: Józef Komakowski (
Bydgoszcz
Bydgoszcz is a city in northern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Kuyavia. Straddling the confluence of the Vistula River and its bank (geography), left-bank tributary, the Brda (river), Brda, the strategic location of Byd ...
)
Heat after heat
# (65,63) Jeleniewski, Paluch, Hlib, Stachyra
# (66,23) Dobrucki, Okoniewski, Drabik, Ząbik
# (66,32) Cieślewicz, Rempała, Kościuch, M. Jabłoński
# (65,62) Miedziński, K. Jabłoński, Drabik, Kościecha
# (65,67) Ułamek, K. Jabłoński, Kościuch, Paluch
# (65,29) Dobrucki, Kościecha, Cieślewicz, Jeleniewski
# (65,25) Drabik, Ząbik, M. Jabłoński, Stachyra
# (65,71) Okoniewski, Hlib, Miedziński, Rempała
# (65,18) Dobrucki, Miedziński, Paluch, M. Jabłoński
# (65,33) Ułamek, Jeleniewski, Drabik, Rempała
# (65,26) Okoniewski, Kościecha, Kościuch, Stachyra
# (66,02) K. Jabłoński, Ząbik, Hlib, Cieślewicz (E/st)
# (66,61) Paluch, Ząbik, Rempała, Kościecha (Fx)
# (65,30) Okoniewski, K. Jabłoński, Jeleniewski, M. Jabłoński
# (65,67) Miedziński, Ułamek, Stachyra, Cieślewicz
# (65,99) Dobrucki, Kościuch, Hlib, Drabik
# (66,00) Okoniewski, Drabik, Paluch, Cieślewicz
# (65,93) Kościuch, Ząbik, Miedziński, Jeleniewski
# (65,75) K. Jabłoński, Stachyra, Dobrucki, Rempała
# (65,99) Ułamek, Hlib, M. Jabłoński, Kościecha
#: The Final:
# (66,12) Dobrucki, Okoniewski, Ułamek, K. Jabłoński
See also
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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 ...
*
2008 in sports
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.
Etymology
English ''eight'', from Old English '', æhta'', Proto-Germanic ''*ahto'' is a direct continuation of Proto-Indo-European numerals, Proto-Indo-European '':wikt:Append ...
References
External links
* (Polish
Official website
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