Kraków Speedway was the Polish
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 ...
teams based in
Kraków
, officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...
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History
1956 to 1965
In 1956, the first club to be registered in Kraków was Auto Mobil Klub Nowa Huta (AMK Nowa Huta).
The team competed in the second league during the
1956 Polish speedway season
The 1956 Polish Speedway season was the 1956 season of motorcycle speedway in Poland.
Individual Polish Individual Speedway Championship
The 1956 Individual Speedway Polish Championship was held over three legs.
*Rzeszów, 5 August
*Leszno, ...
. The following season AMK Kraków (as they were called for that season) competed in the third league south group during
1957
Events January
* January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany.
* January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
* January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...
. The stadium in Nowa Huta (Odmogile Street) was constructed in 1957 and at the end of the 1957 season the AMK club was dissolved but two teams were created by the names of Cracovia Kraków and Wanda Nowa Huta.
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Cracovia Kraków moved to a track in Borek Fałęcki and competed in the third league in ]1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...
, they would compete until the end of 1960 when they were dissolved due to high costs. Meanwhile, Wanda Nowa Huta gained promotion to the second division in 1958 and then won the second division (East) in 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 ...
. However, in 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 ...
, Wanda was relegated and after four more seasons experiencing financial problems and poor results they withdrew from the league in 1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...
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1993 to 2005
Kraków went without a speedway team for 28 years but in 1993 the club was re-established as Wanda Kraków. During the 1993 Polish speedway season the club finished 7th. Mid-table finishes were seen over the following years, until form dropped and they found themselves bottom of the 1999 league table.
When the Ekstraliga was introduced in 2000
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year.
Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
, the club were put into the 2. Liga.
The 2001 Polish speedway season
The 2001 Polish Speedway season was the 2001 season of motorcycle speedway in Poland.
Individual Polish Individual Speedway Championship
The 2001 Individual Speedway Polish Championship final was held on 15 August at Bydgoszcz.
Golden Hel ...
was a strange one because the name Kraków was used by Unia Tarnów, who had split from their sports club at the time and therefore competed as TŻ Kraków - Unia Tarnów. Tarnów won the division while Wanda Kraków finished last in the same table.[
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2010 to 2019
Wanda Kraków returned to action in 2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
but unfortunately finished last again. However, results improved and the club reached the play offs during the 2014 season and were given a place in 1. Liga in 2015. After three seasons in 1. Liga the club were relegated in 2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
and finished last in 2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
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The team dissolved again after the 2019 season and Kraków remains without speedway today.[
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References
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Speedway teams in Poland