Paweł Hlib (born 20 February 1986 in Poland) 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.
Career
Hlib won the
Team Speedway Junior World Championship
The Team Speedway Under-21 World Championship is a speedway competition to determine the World Championship for national Under-21 teams. The sport's equivalent of the Under-21 World Cup in football, as of 2022 the title is awarded to the winners ...
in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and became the
Individual Polish Under-21 Champion in 2007.
In December 2008, he joined the
Poland national team. Hlib stated that he would like to join the
German team because he has
German
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citizenship as well.
He returned to ride in Poland during 2019, for
Wilki Krosno. It was his final season in Poland.
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Results
World Championship
* Individual U-21 World Championship
** 2006 - bronze medal
** 2007
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- Champion
* Team U-21 World Championship (Under-21 World Cup)
** ''2005
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- World Champion (12 points in Semi-Final)''
** 2006 - World Champion (12 points)
** 2007
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- World Champion (10 points)
European Championship
* Individual U-19 European Championship
** 2003 - 11th place
** 2005 - 4th place
Polish competitions
* Individual U-21 Polish Championship
** 2006 - Bronze medal
** 2007
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- Polish Champion
* Silver Helmet
The Silver Helmet ( pl, Turniej o Srebrny Kask, SK) is an annual speedway event held each year organized by the Polish Motor Union
The Polski Związek Motorowy (PZM, PZMot) ( en, Polish Automobile and Motorcycle Federation) is an automobile club ...
(U-21)
** 2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
- Silver medal
** 2005
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- Silver medal
See also
* Poland national speedway team
The Poland national speedway team is the national motorcycle speedway team of Poland and is controlled by the Polish Motor Union ( PZM). The team is one of the major teams in international speedway and they won the Team World Championship nine ti ...
* Speedway in Poland
Speedway is one of the most popular sports in Poland. The Ekstraliga has the highest average attendances for any sport in Poland. The first meetings in Poland were held in the 1930s.Kevin Meynell & Marcin Babnis (7 July 2004) History of Polish ...
References
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1986 births
Living people
Polish speedway riders
German speedway riders
Coventry Bees riders
Team Speedway Junior World Champions
Sportspeople from Gorzów Wielkopolski