TZ Ostrovia Ostrów Wielkopolski formerly the Klub Motorowy Ostrów Wielkopolski are a 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 ...

team based in

Ostrów Wielkopolski Ostrów Wielkopolski () (often abbreviated ''Ostrów Wlkp.'', formerly called simply ''Ostrów'', , Latin: ''Ostrovia'') is a city in west-central Poland with 70,982 inhabitants (2021), situated in the Greater Poland Voivodeship; the seat of Ostr ...

. The team currently race in the 1. Liga.

Stadium

The Ostrów Wielkopolski Municipal Stadium () is located on ''ulica Piłsudskiego (Piłsudski street)''. It contains 12,000 seats. The track is 372 metres long and has a granite surface. The track record was made by

Robert Miśkowiak Robert Miśkowiak (born 21 November 1983 in Rawicz, Poland) is a former motorcycle speedway rider form Poland. Career In 2003, he reached the final of the Speedway Under-21 World Championship. The following year he became the World Under-21 Cham ...

(63.05 sec on 28 June 2009).

History

1948 to 1959

The club competed in the inaugural

1948 Polish speedway season The 1948 Polish Speedway season was the 1948 season of motorcycle speedway in Poland. Individual Polish Individual Speedway Championship The individual event was cancelled. Start list Kraków, October 24 *First league ** Jan Wąsikowski – ...

, under the name of Klub Motorowy Ostrów Wielkopolski and won the silver medal the following year in

1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025 * January 2 – Luis ...

. In

1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 ...

, the second honour came to the club, now known as Stal Ostrów Wielkopolski, when they won the bronze medal. In 1953, the speedway operation of Stal Ostrów Wlkp. moved to Świętochłowice but in 1955, the club now called Kolejarz-Stal Ostrów Wlkp. reappeared in the second division and continued as Ostrovia Ostrów Wlkp. until

1959 Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the ...

, when the club disbanded again.

1979 to 1999

Although speedway meetings took place in Ostrów in the 1969s a team did not return until the 1979 Polish speedway season, where Ostrovia Ostrów finished last in the second division. After 9 years of second division speedway the team led by Jacek Brucheiser finally won promotion by winning 2nd division in

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. The success was short lived because they were relegated the very next season and then struggled for the next five years before failing to take their place in the 1995 league. The club gained promotion in

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

but once again suffered relegation the following season.

2000 to 2013

When the Ekstraliga arrived in 2000, the club suffered a further relegation to 2. Liga. Ostrow won a promotion play off in

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

to return to 1.Liga. The

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 ...

was a disaster for the club after Klub Motorowy Ostrów Wielkopolski folded and was replaced by TZ Ostrovia Ostrów Wielkopolski who finished last in 1.Liga. The club won 2. Liga in

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

but once again problems resulted in them being unable to field a team in 2016

2017 to present

The team returned to action in

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and won promotion to 1. Liga in 2019. After winning the 1.Liga in

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

the club competed in the Ekstraliga for the first time in 2022 but were once again relegated.

Previous teams

2022 Squad *

Tomasz Gapiński Tomasz Gapiński (born 8 July 1982 in Piła, Poland) is an international motorcycle speedway rider. Career Gapiński rode in the 2007 Speedway Grand Prix of Europe. He won the Team Polish Champion titles in 1999 and 2006. Gapiński missed ...

Oliver Berntzon Oliver Berntzon (born 2 August 1993) is an international speedway rider from Sweden. Speedway career Berntzon won the silver medal at the Swedish Championship in 2018. He qualified for the 2018 Speedway Grand Prix and the 2021 Speedway G ...

* Tim Sørensen *

Grzegorz Walasek Grzegorz Walasek (born 29 August 1976) is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider who has competed in the Speedway Grand Prix series and earned 15 international caps for the Poland national speedway team. Career Born in Krosno Odrzańskie, Poland, ...

Chris Holder Christopher Robert Holder (born 24 September 1987 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian speedway rider, who was the 2012 World Speedway Champion. He is also five times Australian champion (2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014. Career Hold ...

* Filip Hjelmland * Kacper Grzelak * Jakub Krawczyk * Jakub Poczta 2023 team *

* Matias Nielsen *

Tobiasz Musielak Tobiasz Musielak (born 18 August 1993 in Leszno, Poland) is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider. Career Musielak, the younger brother of fellow Speedway rider Sławomir Musielak, mirrored the early career of his brother by starting his career ...

Victor Palovaara Victor Palovaara (born 31 January 1994) is a Swedish international speedway rider. Speedway career After winning two medals at the Team Speedway Junior European Championship (a silver in 2010 and bronze in 2011) Palovaara came to prominence ...

* Kacper Grzelak * Sebastian Szostak * Jakub Krawczyk * Gracjan Szostak * Jakub Poczta

Notable riders

Honours

References

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