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Paweł Waloszek

Paweł Waloszek (28 April 1938 – 7 September 2018) was a Polish international motorcycle speedway rider who was second in 1970 Individual Speedway World Championship. He earned 74 caps for the Poland national speedway team and won the 1965 Speedway World Team Cup with them.[1]

Paweł Waloszek
Born(1938-04-28)28 April 1938
Świętochłowice, Poland
Died7 September 2018(2018-09-07) (aged 80)
NationalityPolish
Career history
Poland
1954-1956, 1958, 1961-1985Stal Świętochłowice
1957Gwardia Katowice
1959Legia Warszawa
1960Legia Gdańsk
Great Britain
1961Leicester Hunters
Individual honours
1970World championship silver medal
1968Golden Helmet Winner
1968, 1972European champion
Team honours
1965World Team Cup

Career

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Waloszek won the Individual Speedway European Championship twice, in 1968 and 1972.[2][3] He reached five Individual World Championship finals finishing runner-up at the 1970 Individual Speedway World Championship.[4]

He also reached the final of the Polish Individual Speedway Championship eighteen times.[5]

He rode the majority of his career in his native Poland, representing Stal Świętochłowice in a career that lasted 31 years, from 1955 to 1985.[6] He won the bronze medal of the Team Speedway Polish Championship with Śląsk (1972).[5]

Waloszek only rode one season in Great Britain, when he signed for the Leicester Hunters for the 1961 Speedway National League season.[7][8][9] He toured the United Kingdom with the Polish national team in 1966[10] and 1967.[11]

Honour

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Paweł Waloszek Skałka Stadium

In 2014, the Skalka Stadium was renamed the Paweł Waloszek Stadium in his honour.[5]

Results

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World Championships

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World Final Appearances

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Individual World Championship

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World Team Cup

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Polish competitions

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  2. ^ Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 101. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
  3. ^ Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. p. 23. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
  4. ^ "Champion Ivan makes History". Newcastle Journal. 7 September 1970. p. 12. Retrieved 9 July 2021 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ^ a b c "Paweł Waloszek is the patron of the stadium in Świętochłowice". Sporto We Fakty. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Paweł Waloszek Polska". Polish Speedway Database. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  7. ^ "Hunters New Polish Rider Named". Leicester Daily Mercury. 11 March 1961. Retrieved 8 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ^ "Leicester Lions - polski klub w Elite League". Przegląd Sportowy Onet. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  9. ^ "Rider averages 1929 to 2009" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  10. ^ "European finalists on city circuit". Star Green 'un. 30 July 1966. Retrieved 11 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  11. ^ "Polish national team photograph". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 22 July 1967. Retrieved 12 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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