Damian Ratajczak (born 23 May 2005) is an international

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

Ratajczak's breakthrough was in 2022, when he reached the final of the

2022 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship The 2022 European Individual Speedway Junior Championship was the 25th edition of the Championship. Three qualifying heats took place in Vetlanda Motorstadion (11 June), Žarnovica (30 July) and Plzeň speedway track Plzeň speedway trac ...

. He also won the silver medal in the

Silver Helmet The Silver Helmet (, SK) is an annual speedway event held each year organised by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1966. Previous winners * (+1971, all three riders finished on 54 points) References {{Speedway in Poland Helmet Silver< ...

during the 2022 Polish speedway season. In

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, he entered his second season with

Unia Leszno Unia Leszno are a motorcycle speedway team established on 8 May 1938 and based in Leszno, Poland. The team's home track is at the Stadion Alfreda Smoczyka. They compete in the Ekstraliga (speedway), Ekstraliga (the highest division) and are Pol ...

and also qualified for the

2023 SGP2 The 2023 SGP2 series was the 47th edition of the FIM Individual Under-21 World Championship. It was staged as the SGP2 class of the FIM Speedway Grand Prix series after rights holders Discovery Sports Events took over promotional rights of th ...

(the world Under-21 Championship). He won the silver medal in the World U21 Championship and helped Poland win the 2023 Team Speedway Junior European Championship. In 2024, he broke his femur riding for Grindsted Speedway Klub during the 2024 Danish speedway season and required surgery.

References

Living people 2005 births Polish speedway riders 21st-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-speedway-bio-stub