Robert Kościecha (born 22 November 1977 in

Toruń Toruń is a city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland and a World Heritage Sites of Poland, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its population was 196,935 as of December 2021. Previously, it was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship (1975–199 ...

, 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

Kościecha won 2005 European Pairs Speedway Champion title. In 2005, he rode in several fixtures for

Poole Pirates Poole Pirates (also known as Poole Speedway) are a motorcycle speedway team based in Poole, England, competing in the SGB Championship. The club have been the champions of the United Kingdom on ten occasions. Poole Speedway is promoted by l ...

. Robert was also captain for his Swedish team Piraterna in 2009.

Family

His father Roman Kościecha (2 August 1949 - 6 June 2009) was also a speedway rider. He has a sister called Agnieszka.

Results

World Championships

* Individual U-21 World Championship **

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

- 11th place (5 points)

European Championships

* Individual European Championship **

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

- 13th (4 points) * European Pairs Championship **

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 ...

- 3rd place (6 points) **

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

- European Champion (12 points) ** ''

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

- 1st place in Semi-Final (3 points)'' * European Club Champions' Cup **

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

- Runner-up (7 pts) Toruń

Domestic competitions

* Individual Polish Championship ** 2004 - 4th place ** ''

- 17th place in Semi-Final 2'' * Team Polish Championship ** 2001 - Polish Champion

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kosciecha, Robert 1977 births Living people Polish speedway riders European Pairs Speedway Champions Polonia Bydgoszcz riders