Bartłomiej Kowalski (born 4 March 2002) is an international

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

Kowalski came to prominence in 2022, when he was part of the Polish team that won the Team Junior European Championship. Previously he had ridden for

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in 2018 and

Włókniarz Częstochowa Włókniarz Częstochowa is a motorcycle speedway team based in Częstochowa, Poland. They were established in 1946 and the team's home track is at the Arena Częstochowa, which has a capacity of over 16,850 people. The team currently competes ...

from 2020 until 2021. In 2022, he joined

Wrocław Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...

. In 2023, he joined

Indianerna Indianerna (the Indians) are a Swedish motorcycle speedway team based in Kumla, Sweden. The club's official name is Kumla MSK and it was founded in 1936 which makes the club one of the oldest motorsport clubs in Sweden. They are two times Swedi ...

for the

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. In August 2023, he won his first

Team Speedway Under-21 World Championship The Team Speedway Under-21 World Championship is a speedway competition to determine the World Championship for national Under-21 teams (the sport's equivalent of the Under-21 World Cup in football). As of 2022, the event has been known as th ...

, winning the

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, in addition to winning a second U23 European team title. His 2023 season was capped off in fine style following success in winning the

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and Polish Junior Championship, during the 2023 Polish speedway season. He won a third successive gold medal at the 2024 European Under 23 Team Speedway Championship.

Major results

World individual Championship

2021 Speedway Grand Prix The 2021 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 27th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 76th FIM Speedway World Championship. The calendar of events was disrupted by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the series was dominat ...

- =32nd *

2023 speedway grand prix The 2023 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 29th season of the Speedway Grand Prix era, and decided the 78th FIM Speedway World Championship. It was the second series promoted by Discovery Sports Events. Bartosz Zmarzlik was the defending champ ...

- =21st

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kowalski, Bartlomiej Living people 2002 births Polish speedway riders Sportspeople from Tarnów Motorcycle racers from Lesser Poland Voivodeship 21st-century Polish sportsmen