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2003 Speedway Grand Prix Of Europe
The 2003 Speedway Grand Prix of Europe was the first round of the 2003 Speedway Grand Prix season (the world championship). It took place on 17 May 2003 at the Stadion Śląski in Chorzów, Poland. It was the third time that the Speedway Grand Prix of Europe had been held. The Grand Prix was by the Swedish rider Tony Rickardsson (his 12th career Grand Prix win). Grand Prix result Heat by heat *Heat 01 Andersen, Richardson, Cegielski, Ulamek *Heat 02 Brhel, Dryml, Kurmanski, Wiltshire *Heat 03 Holta, Protasiewicz, Lyons, Karlsson *Heat 04 Bajerski, Nicholls, B Pedersen, N Pedersen *Heat 05 N Pedersen, Cegielski, Wiltshire, Lyons *Heat 06 Kurmanski, Ulamek, B Pedersen, Karlsson *Heat 07 Nicholls, Dryml, Andersen, Holta *Heat 08 Protasiewicz, Brhel, Bajerski, Richardson *Heat 09 Rickardsson, Max, Adams, Loram S*Heat 10 Gollob, Hancock, Crump, Sullivan *Heat 11 N Pedersen, Richardson, Ulamek, Andersen *Heat 12 Cegielski, Holta, Bajerski, Kurmanski *Heat 13 Rickardsson, Holt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stadion Śląski
The Silesian Stadium (; Polish: ) is a sport stadium located on the premises of Silesian Park in Chorzów, Poland. The stadium has a fully covered capacity of 54,378, after refurbishment completed in October 2017. The stadium hosted many Poland national football team matches and for many decades was Poland's national stadium. After the National Stadium in Warsaw was completed, the Silesian Stadium lost that role. The stadium was not in operation between 2009 and 2017 due to its ongoing reconstruction. Silesian Stadium is a UEFA Category 4 stadium and hosts the annual Kamila Skolimowska Memorial, a Diamond League meeting. The stadium hosted the athletics events of the 2023 European Games and is set to host the 2028 European Athletics Championships. History In 1950, as a part of an ambitious project to build Silesian Park, plans for Silesian Stadium were drawn up by Julian Brzuchowski. Construction began in 1951, and the stadium opened in 1956. The stadium was inaugurated on 22 ... [...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] |
Peter Karlsson (speedway Rider)
Peter Gunnar Karlsson (born 18 December 1969) is a Swedish former motorcycle speedway rider. He was twice Swedish champion and a three times World Cup winner. He earned 40 caps for the Sweden national speedway team. Career Karlsson first rode for Wolverhampton Wolves in Britain during the 1990 season. He won the Swedish Pairs Championship twice with brother Mikael Max, in 1992 and 1996 and was the Swedish Individual Champion in 1989 and 1991. In October 2000, during the Speedway Grand Prix Qualification he won the GP Challenge, which ensured that he claimed a permanent slot for the 2001 Grand Prix. He is regarded as a legend at parent club Wolverhampton where he helped them win the 2009 Elite League title despite suffering with a broken collarbone two weeks prior to the play off final. Due to the average points limit, PK had to move on in 2010 and joined Belle Vue Aces on loan. For the 2012 season he signed for Lakeside Hammers, where he spent three seasons. In 2016, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Lyons
Jason Rodney Lyons (born 15 June 1970 in Mildura, Victoria) is a former Australian international motorcycle speedway rider. Jason is the son of former rider Rod Lyons. Career history Lyons started his United Kingdom career in 1990, with the Glasgow Tigers in the National League alongside fellow Aussie Shane Bowes from Adelaide. He joined the Belle Vue Aces in 1992 where he stayed for twelve consecutive seasons and where he gained the nickname 'Mr. Belle Vue'. Lyons was a member of the Australian team that won the World Team Cup in 1999 and the team that won the World Cup in 2002. The 2002 Final was run on the East of England Showground, the home track of his then Premier League club the Peterborough Panthers. In his only appearance in the World Under-21 Championship final in 1991 at the Brandon stadium in Coventry, England, Lyons finished a fine third behind Danes Brian Andersen (winner) and Morten Andersen (second). In 1993, Lyons won the Jack Young Memorial Cup at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Wiltshire
Todd Wiltshire (born 26 September 1968 in Bankstown, New South Wales) is an Australian former motorcycle speedway rider, who competed at the highest level of the sport, finishing a career best third in the 1990 Individual Speedway World Championship at the Odsal Stadium in Bradford, England. He is also a two time Australian Champion, winning in 1999 and 2001. Career Australia Despite being born in Sydney, Todd Wiltshire spent most of his childhood in Newcastle. He started racing in 1979 at the Lake Macquarie Mini-Cycle Club, giving his older sister Fiona the credit for getting him started in racing saying she was his inspiration through her own involvement in dirt track racing. Wiltshire won numerous junior titles before capturing the Australian 500cc championship in his first senior year in 1986. Seeking a new challenge Wiltshire turned to Speedway in late 1986 and won the ACT Championship in both 1987 and 1988 at the Tralee Speedway in Australia's capital city Canberra an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjarne Pedersen
Bjarne Aagaard Pedersen (born 12 July 1978 in Holstebro, Denmark) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider who represented Denmark in the Speedway World Cup, winning it on two occasions: in 2006 and 2008. Career summary Pedersen began his speedway career in 1990. He won his first title in 1994 winning a Danish junior pairs championship with Charlie Gjedde. However, he did not ride as a full-time professional until 2000. Pedersen began his United Kingdom racing career in with the Newcastle Diamonds in the Premier League. He took part in his first two Speedway Grand Prix events in 2002, both as a wild card. His first full Speedway Grand Prix season came in 2003, but it was not until 2004 when Pedersen won his only Grand Prix to date at the European GP in Wrocław. Also in 2004, he won the Elite League Riders' Championship, held at Wimborne Road on 17 October. Pedersen admitted at the end of the 2007 season that he had lost enthusiasm for riding in Speedway Gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafał Kurmański
Rafał Kurmański (22 August 1982 – 30 May 2004) was a Polish speedway rider. He earned one international caps for the Poland national speedway team. Career Kurmański started his speedway career with Zielona Góra during the 1999 Polish speedway season. He would remain with the club for all six seasons of his short career. In 2001, he was second in the 2001 Individual Under-19 European Championship. Kurmański rode for Swindon Robins in the British speedway leagues, participating in the 2004 Elite League speedway season. In 2004, he took his own life. World Championship results Speedway Grand Prix results Individual World Championship * 2003 - 36th place (3 points) Individual World U-21 Championship * 2002 - 6th place (10 points) * 2003 - 7th place (8 points) Other results Individual U-19 European Championship *2001 - Runner-up (13 points) Individual Polish Championship * 2001 - 15th place in Semi-Final * 2002 - 6th place (7 points) Polish U-21 Pair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Andersen (speedway Rider)
Hans Nørgaard Andersen (born 3 November 1980, in Odense, Denmark) is a former motorcycle speedway rider, who captained the Denmark national speedway team that won the Speedway World Cup in 2006 and 2008. Career summary Andersen was a Danish Junior Champion in 1996 and reached the final of the 1999 Speedway Under-21 World Championship, where he finished fourth. He began his British league career when he joined Poole Pirates for the 2001 Elite League speedway season. He spent 2002 with Poole before securing a move to Peterborough Panthers in 2003. During 2004 and 2005 he rode for Ipswich Witches and was an established member of the Danish national team as well as a regular rider in the Speedway Grand Prix. He won his first Grand Prix race during the 2004 Speedway Grand Prix, when he won the Speedway Grand Prix of Scandinavia. Despite being originally left out of the 2006 Speedway Grand Prix series, he replaced the retired Tony Rickardsson, eventually winning two Grand Prix ... [...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] |
Tomasz Bajerski
Tomasz Bajerski (born 9 September 1975 in Toruń, Poland) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Poland. He earned three international caps for the Poland national speedway team. Career Bajerski rode in the 2003 Speedway Grand Prix. He was won Team Speedway Polish Championship, Team Polish Champion title in 2001 and Individual Speedway Junior Polish Championship, Individual U-21 Polish Champion titles in 1993 and 1996. In the British leagues, Exeter Falcons wanted to sign him in 1995 before he actually rode for King's Lynn Stars, Oxford Cheetahs and Peterborough Panthers in the British speedway leagues. Speedway Grand Prix results Results World Championships * Individual Speedway World Championship, Individual World Championship (Speedway Grand Prix) ** 2003 Speedway Grand Prix, 2003 - 15th place (51 points) * Individual Speedway Junior World Championship, Individual U-21 World Championship ** 1992 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship, 1992 - Pfaffenhofe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohumil Brhel
Bohumil Brhel (born 10 June 1965) is a Czech former motorcycle speedway rider. He earned 10 international caps for the Czechoslovakia national speedway team and 15 caps for the Czech Republic national speedway team. Career Brhel started racing in the British leagues during the 1990 British League season, when riding for the King's Lynn Stars. He spent six season with them from 1990 to 1995. In 1996, he joined the Oxford Cheetahs from King's Lynn and was part of the four that won the Premier League Four-Team Championship, which was held on 4 August 1996, at the East of England Arena. He returned to King's Lynn the following season and rode with them until the end of the 1999 season. Brhel won the 2001 Individual European Champion title. He won the Czechoslovak title on six occasions. Results World Finals Individual * 1989 - Munich, Olympic Stadium - 16th - 1pt *1994 - Vojens, Vojens Speedway Center - 10th - 6pts Grand Prix World (European) Under-21 Championship ... [...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] |
