Dariusz Śledź (born 15 September 1969) 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. He earned 7 international caps for the

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Career

Śledź first came to prominence after reaching the final of the

1990 Speedway Under-21 World Championship The 1990 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship was the 14th edition of the World motorcycle speedway Under-21 Championships. The championship was won by Chris Louis of England. World final *9 September 1990 * Stadium Ska, Lviv Refe ...

, finishing 12th. He rode in the 1995 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland. Śledź won the Polish league three times and spent most oh his career with

Lublin Lublin is List of cities and towns in Poland, the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the centre of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin i ...

and

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 2004, he rode for

Peterborough Panthers The Peterborough Panthers were a British motorcycle speedway team based in Peterborough, England from 1970 to 2023. They were three times List of United Kingdom speedway league champions, champions of the United Kingdom, winning the highest lev ...

in the British speedway leagues, during the 2004 Elite League speedway season but only rode in six matches. In February 2009, he was appointed coach of the speedway club Stal Rzeszów, after previously managing the WTS Atlas team. In 2019, he became a manager of Sparta Wroclaw.

Results

Speedway Grand Prix results

World Championships

* Individual World Championship (

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) ** ''

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

- 13th place in World Semi Final 2'' **

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

- 22nd place (7 points in three event) * Team World Championship (

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) ** ''

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

- 4th place in Group B'' ** ''

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

- 3rd place in Group C'' ** ''

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

- 3rd place in Group A'' **

- Runner-up (0 points) * Individual U-21 World Championship **

- 12th place (5 points)

References

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Career

Results

Speedway Grand Prix results

World Championships

See also

References