The Grudziądz Speedway Stadium (Polish: Stadion Żużlowy w Grudziądzu) is a 8,000-capacity

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 ...

stadium in the south of

Grudziądz Grudziądz (, ) is a city in northern Poland, with 92,552 inhabitants (2021). Located on the Vistula River, it lies within the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship and is the fourth-largest city in its province. Grudziądz is one of the oldest citie ...

in Poland. The venue is used by the speedway team

GKM Grudziądz GKM Grudziądz is a Polish motorcycle speedway team based in Grudziądz. They race at the 8,000-capacity Grudziądz Speedway Stadium. The team currently competes in the Ekstraliga (speedway), Ekstraliga (the highest division) and have won the b ...

, who compete in the

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 r ...

History

The stadium opened before

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. After the war the stadium was used by the Nadwiślan football club. The speedway track was constructed later and opened on 26 September 1967. Many years later the football team Stomil Grudziądz used the pitch but they were dissolved in 1998 and the pitch was removed to be replaced by a mini speedway track. In 2009, new seating was installed and from 2012 to 2018 renovation of the arena was carried out on an annual basis. The renovation included new track floodlights (2012), and the rebuilding of the northern section of the eastern stand (2015), east stand rebuild (2017) and the west stand rebuild (2018). In 2019, the speedway track was reduced in size from 379 metres to 355 metres. The track record for the old 379 metres track was set by Maksim Bogdanovs on 2 August 2009 in a time of 64.41 seconds. On 23 June 2020,

Artem Laguta Artem Grigoryevich Laguta (; born 13 November 1990) is a Russian motorcycle speedway rider and member of the Russian national team. He is the 2021 World Champion. Career details Laguta became the Russian champion in 2010 and 2011. In Aug ...

set a new 355 metres track record of 64.97 seconds.

References

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