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2001 Speedway World Cup
The 2001 Speedway World Cup (SWC) was the 1st Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, FIM Speedway World Cup season (and 42nd edition of a speedway team World Cup). The Final took place on 7 July 2008 in Wrocław, Poland. The tournament was won by Australia national speedway team, Australia (68 points) and they beat host team Poland national speedway team, Poland (65 pts), Sweden national speedway team, Sweden (51 pts), Denmark national speedway team, Denmark (44 pts) and United States national speedway team, United States (30 pts) in the Final. Qualification The two group winners and runners-up qualified to 2001 Speedway World Cup. Venues Two cities were selected to host SWC finals events: Tournament Qualifying rounds Q1 details Heat after heat # Loram, Ułamek, Reima, Pingel # Stonehewer, Mir.Kowalik, Kylmaekorpi, Riss # Protasiewicz, Kugelmann, Laukkanen, Hurry # T.Gollob, Richardson, Nieminen, Rudolph # Cegielski, Havelock, Kokko, Mell # Ułamek, Rud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speedway World Cup
The Speedway World Cup is a motorcycle speedway event for national teams held in different countries. The first edition of the competition in the current format was held in 2001 and replaced the old Speedway World Team Cup, World Team Cup which ran from 1960 until 2000. The competition was held annually until 2017 when it was replaced by the Speedway of Nations pairs event. The Speedway World Cup returned in 2023 and will be held every three years. Past winners Medal classification Participating nations ;Legend * – Champions. * – Runners-up. * – Third place. * – Qualified, but withdrew. * – Did not qualify. * – Did not enter or withdrew. * – Race-off and final hosts. Format The current tournament format consists of two semi finals with the winner qualifying for the grand final and the second and third place teams entering a race off. In the four team race off only the winner will join the two semi final winners and the hosts in the grand final. Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gdańsk Speedway Stadium
The Zbigniew Podlecki Stadium (Polish Stadion im. Zbigniewa Podleckiego) formerly the Stadion Wybrzeże, is a 10,000-capacity motorcycle speedway stadium on the eastern outskirts of Gdańsk in Poland. The venue is used by the speedway team Wybrzeże Gdańsk, who compete in the Team Speedway Polish Championship. It also hosts football (90 x 50 metres), concerts, shows, festivals, recreational and integration events. There is a mini speedway track next to the stadium. History The stadium opened on 8 May 1925 as part of the Free City of Danzig and was built on the site of former fortifications. It was commissioned by Germans taking the name Kampfbahn Niederstadt. When it was first used it was mainly for football and also contained an athletics track. After World War II the stands were enlarged and the Marathon Gate was built. The speedway track was opened on 11 April 1965 and underwent improvements before the 1988 season, with white granite replacing the existing track base. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kauko Nieminen
Kauko Tapio Nieminen (born 29 August 1979, in Seinäjoki) is a Finnish former speedway rider who earned 18 caps for the Finland national speedway team. Career summary Nieminen started his United Kingdom career with the Workington Comets in 2002 and was with them every season until 2008 except for 2006, when he rode for the Glasgow Tigers. In 2004, he was part of the Workington four that won the Premier League Four-Team Championship, which was held on 21 August 2004, at the Derwent Park. In 2006, he represented Finland in the 2006 Speedway World Cup. Nieminen was known by both Workington and Glasgow fans as 'The Flyin Finn' because of his racing style, which produces some high speed passing. In the 2007 season, Nieminen returned to the Workington Comets, this time as captain, and also rode for Solkatterna in Sweden and TŻ Lublin in Poland. At the end of the season it was announced he would return the Comets in 2008 and he won the Premier League Pairs Championship par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaj Laukkanen
Kai Pekka Laukkanen (born 8 April 1975) is a Finnish former motorcycle speedway rider. He earned 15 caps for the Finland national speedway team. Career Laukkanen won the final running of the Intercontinental Final in 2001. He rode in 2004 Speedway Grand Prix and won the bronze medal in 2005 Individual Speedway European Championship. He is an eight times national champion of Finland after winning the Finnish Individual Speedway Championship in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006. In the British leagues, he started his career with Long Eaton in 1995 but was loaned to Oxford in February 1996. He joined Belle Vue Aces in 1999. Major results World Championships * Individual World Championship and Speedway Grand Prix ** 2002 - 28th place (6 pts in one event) ** 2004 - 20th place (25 pts) ** 2007 - 23rd place (5 pts in three events) * Team World Championship (Speedway World Team Cup and Speedway World Cup) ** ''1995 - 7th place in Group B'' ** ''2000 - 2nd place i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Havelock
Robert Gary Havelock (born 4 November 1968) is a British former speedway rider who was World Champion in 1992. Career Havelock's father was speedway rider Brian Havelock. Gary Havelock first competed in grasstrack racing, winning the British Junior Championship, before following his father into speedway.Daniel, Paul (1985) "Stars of Tomorrow: Gary Havelock", '' Speedway Star'', 18 May 1985, p. 18-19 Havelock showed his potential early in his speedway career, winning the Suffolk Open Championship at Mildenhall as a 16-year-old in 1984, only two weeks after qualifying for a licence.Butt, Randall (1984) "Great Gary", '' Speedway Star'', 20 October 1984, p. 28 Havelock started his league career with local club Middlesbrough Tigers (the team managed by his father) in 1985, moving from reserve to the main body of the team by May. He helped Middlesbrough win the Fours Championship during the 1985 National League season. He moved to the Bradford Dukes in 1987, the same year that h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hurry
Paul William George Hurry (born 9 April 1975 in Canterbury, Kent) is an English former motorcycle speedway rider. He earned 12 international caps for the England national speedway team and 5 caps for the Great Britain team. Career Hurry began his racing career aged 16 with the Arena Essex Hammers in 1991. He was a member of the team that won the league and cup double the 1991 British League Division Two season. Despite the success he experienced during his maiden year he switched to Peterborough Panthers and remarkably completed the treble of league, knockout cup and fours during the 1992 British League Division Two season. In 1994, he became British under 21 champion and in 2000 he finished in second place at the British Speedway Championship. Hurry was selected to represent the Great Britain national speedway team at the 2001 Speedway World Cup Race-off, but the team failed to reach the final. After spells with various British clubs, Hurry returned to Arena Essex in 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Richardson (speedway Rider)
Lee Stewart Richardson (25 April 1979 – 13 May 2012) was a British international motorcycle speedway rider. Career Richardson made his British debut for the Reading Racers in 1995. Richardson represented Great Britain speedway team, Great Britain at senior and under-21 level and featured in several Speedway World Cup, World Cup tournaments. Richardson was World Under 21 champion in 1999. In October 2002, during the Speedway Grand Prix Qualification he won the 2002 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification, GP Challenge, which ensured that he claimed a permanent slot for the 2003 Speedway Grand Prix, 2003 Grand Prix. He won the Elite League Riders' Championship, held at Brandon Stadium on 18 October 2003. He was also a fully fledged Speedway Grand Prix, Grand Prix rider for four seasons from 2003 until 2006. Richardson joined the Lakeside Hammers for the 2009 season. Death On 13 May 2012, Richardson died of internal bleeding in a Wrocław hospital following a collision with a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Stonehewer
Carl Bryan Stonehewer (born 16 May 1972) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from England. He earned seven international caps for the England national speedway team and five caps for the Great Britain team. Career Stonehewer's principal club in Britain were Belle Vue Aces and Workington Comets. In 1997, he won the Premier League Pairs Championship partnering Martin Dixon for the Long Eaton Invaders, during the 1997 Premier League speedway season. The success was the first of five Pairs championships. He was also part of the Long Eaton four that won the Premier League Four-Team Championship, which was held on 3 August 1997, at the East of England Arena. In 1999, he won the Premier League Pairs Championship again, partnering Brent Werner, during his first season with Workington. He successfully defended the title the following season but this time partnering Mick Powell during the 2000 Premier League speedway season. Also in 2000, he won the Polish Speedway Second Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Loram
Mark Roysten Gregory Loram (born 12 January 1971) is a British former motorcycle speedway rider, who won the World Speedway Championship in 2000 and won the British Championship in 1997, 1999, and 2001. He earned 36 international caps for the England national speedway team and 10 caps for the Great Britain team. Career 1987 to 1993 Born in Mtarfa, Malta, Mark Loram started his career with the Hackney Kestrels during the 1987 British League season. He averaged a respectable 5.08 and retained his place in the Hackney side for the 1988 National League season, where he not only topped the league averages but also led hackney to the league and cup double. he also became the British junior champion. He signed for Ipswich Witches for the 1989 National League season and won his first individual honours by winning the Riders' Championship. He also reached the final of the Under 21 World Championship. The following season he stepped up to the highest league after joining ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krzysztof Cegielski
Krzysztof Cegielski (born 3 September 1979 in Poland) is a former Polish speedway rider who was a permanent Speedway Grand Prix rider in 2002 and 2003 season. He earned five international caps for the Poland speedway team. Career Cegielski began racing for Gorzów during the 1996 Polish speedway season. He continued to ride for them before switching to Wybrzeże Gdańsk in 2001. It was also in 2001 that he rode for Poole Pirates in the British speedway leagues. The following season in 2002, he moved to Start Gniezno and Eastbourne Eagles respectively. In 2003, he was involved in an on-track crash in a Swedish League. The resulting spinal cord injury left him partially paralysed, and ended his racing career. He has remained close to the speedway world, acting as a speedway manager and expert. After over a decade of determined and laborious rehabilitation, he managed to get back on his feet, and is now able to walk short distances. World Championship results Speedway G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Ułamek
Sebastian Ułamek (born 20 November 1975) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Poland. He was a European individual Champion and earned 9 international caps for the Poland national speedway team. Career Ułamek rode in the Polish leagues for his home club Włókniarz Częstochowa from 1992 until 1998 and then Wybrzeże Gdańsk, Gdańsk from 1999 to 2000 (the 2000 season was in the Ekstraliga (speedway), Ekstraliga). He began to establish himself as one of the leading riders and participated in his first Grand Prix series during the 1998 Speedway Grand Prix season. He made his British league debut in 2000, when riding several times for Wolverhampton Wolves before returning to Poland to ride for WTS Wrocław, Wrocław. On 12 August 2001 he won the Continental Speedway Final, Continental Final, which formed part of the 2002 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification. He aslso won a silver medal with Poland at the 2001 Speedway World Cup. In 2002, in addition to his Swedish commitments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirosław Kowalik (speedway Rider)
Mirosław Kowalik (born 7 May 1969 in Aleksandrów Kujawski, Poland) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Poland, He earned eight international caps for the Poland national speedway team. Career Kowalik began his career at Toruń during the 1988 Polish speedway season. He would remain loyal with the club for 16 seasons before joining Polonia Bydgoszcz in 2003. He rode for Ipswich Witches in the British speedway leagues during the 1993 British League season, riding nine times for a 3.56 average and appeared for Masarna in Sweden. In 2001, he was selected by Poland for the 2001 Speedway World Cup Qualifying round 1, when the team easily won the round and went on to win a silver medal in the 2001 Speedway World Cup. After retiring he took up coaching and was the KS Toruń team manager in 2012. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
