Henryk Żyto (1936–2018) was an international

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rider from Poland. He earned 32 international caps for the

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Speedway career

Żyto reached the final of the

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in the 1960 Individual Speedway World Championship. Also in 1960, he rode for

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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

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World final appearances

Individual World Championship

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...

- London,

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- 13th - 4pts *

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

- London, Wembley Stadium - Reserve, did not ride

World Team Cup

1961 Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and cons ...

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(with Marian Kaiser / Mieczysław Połukard / Florian Kapała / Stanisław Tkocz) - Winner - 32pts (12) *

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...

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, Stadion Wien (with Andrzej Pogorzelski / Marian Kaiser / Joachim Maj / Stanisław Tkocz) - 4th - 7pts (4)

References

1936 births 2018 deaths Polish speedway riders Coventry Bees riders Polish expatriate speedway riders in England Unia Leszno riders {{Poland-speedway-bio-stub