Mirosław Korbel (born 31 January 1963) 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. Since retiring he has been a team coach for Kolejarz Opole.

Career

Korbel won the gold medal in the prestigious Golden Helmet during the 1990 Polish speedway season. During the same season he won the silver medal 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 ...

behind

Zenon Kasprzak Zenon Kasprzak (born 10 May 1962) is a former international speedway rider from Poland. Speedway career Kasprzak reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1988 Individual Speedway World Championship. He won the Continental S ...

. He spent the majority of his career riding for

Rybnik Rybnik (Polish pronunciation: ; ) is a city in southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship, around 38 km (24 mi) southwest of Katowice, the region's capital, and around 19 km (11 mi) from the Czech Republic, Czech border. It i ...

, where he won three medals at the Polish league championships (two silver and one bronze). In 1987 he toured the United Kingdom with the Polish team. He competed in the

1988 Individual Speedway World Championship The 1988 Individual Speedway World Championship was the 43rd edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider. The final was held at the Vojens Speedway Center, owned by former World Champion Ole Olsen. Despite ...

qualifying, winning the first Continental round and reaching the Continental Speedway Final.

References

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