Józef Olejniczak
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Józef Olejniczak (5 September 1918 – 13 March 2001) was a
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 was the 1950 Polish champion.


Career

Olejniczak became the champion of Poland after he won gold at the
Polish Individual Speedway Championship The Individual Speedway Polish Championship ( Polish: ''Indywidualne Mistrzostwa Polski, IMP'') is an annual speedway event held each year organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1932. The current Polish Champion is Maciej Janowski, w ...
in 1950, during the
1950 Polish speedway season The 1950 Polish Speedway season was the 1950 season of motorcycle speedway in Poland. Individual Polish Individual Speedway Championship The 1950 Individual Speedway Polish Championship was held in Kraków on 8 October. Result and heat detai ...
. From 1949 to 1954, he won six consecutive
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 ...
s, as part of the
Unia Leszno Unia Leszno are a motorcycle speedway team established on 8 May 1938 and based in Leszno, Poland. The team's home track is at the Stadion Alfreda Smoczyka. They compete in the Ekstraliga (speedway), Ekstraliga (the highest division) and are Pol ...
team that dominated the Polish leagues from the
1949 Polish speedway season The 1949 Polish Speedway season was the 1949 season of motorcycle speedway in Poland. Individual Polish Individual Speedway Championship The 1949 Individual Speedway Polish Championship was held in Leszno on 23 October 1949. It was the fifth ru ...
, through to the 1954 Polish speedway season. The Leszno team included riders such as Alfred Smoczyk, Jan Malinowski and
Henryk Żyto Henryk Żyto (1936–2018) was an international motorcycle speedway rider from Poland. He earned 32 international caps for the Poland national speedway team. Speedway career Żyto reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1 ...
. In 2021, the Unia Leszno club applied to the authorities for the square outside the
Alfred Smoczyk Stadium Alfred Smoczyk Stadium () is a stadium in Leszno, Poland. It is currently used for speedway matches and is the home stadium of Unia Leszno. The stadium has a capacity of 16,700 people. The stadium is located on ''ulica Strzelecka 7''. Histor ...
to be named after Józef Olejniczak.


References

1918 births 2001 deaths Polish speedway riders Unia Leszno riders {{Poland-speedway-bio-stub