Martin Smolinski (born 6 December 1984, in

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) is a former international

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and

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rider from Germany. He is eight times champion of Germany.

Career

Smolinksi began riding in his natiove Germany for MSC Olching. He became the German junior champion in 2003 and after reaching the final 2003 Speedway Under-21 World Championship he signed for

Coventry Bees Coventry Bees were a motorcycle speedway team that existed from 1929 to 2018. They raced at Brandon Stadium, Brandon near Coventry, England. History A Coventry team was first formed in 1928 and competed in the inaugural season of the Souther ...

in England. Coventry retained him for the following two seasons and his form improved over the next two seasons. In 2006, he signed for his first Polish club

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and in 2007 became the German Champion for the first time. Also in 2007, he won the league and cup double with Coventry during the 2007 Elite League speedway season. He was a regular team member of the German speedway team at senior level and represented them in the annual

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. In 2010, he won his third German title and began concentrating mainly on Long track. He would win eight German speedway Championships but his finest success came in 2018 when he won the 2018 Individual Long Track World Championship.

Speedway Grand Prix

Major results

Speedway

World team championship

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, disintegrated during reentry into Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an 2002– ...

- 10th place (1 point in Event 1) *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

- 2nd place in Qualifying round 1 (14 points) *

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris (dwarf planet), Er ...

- 8th place (2 points in Event 2) * 2006 - 2nd place in Qualifying round 1 (9 points) *

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto ...

- 2nd place in Qualifying round 1 (13 points) *

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing ...

- 2nd place in Qualifying round 1 (12 points) *

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

- 2nd place in Qualifying round 1 (10 points)

Other

World U-21 World Championship *

- 15th place (2 points) *

- 6th place (9 points) *

- 15th place (2 points) Team U-21 World Championship *

- 2nd in Qualifying Round 1 (8 points) U-19 European Championship *

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

- 4th place (11 points + 2) *

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains independence from Indonesia and ...

- 13th place (4 points) *

- 16th place (2 points) European Pairs Championship *

- 10 points in Semi-Final 1 * 2006 - 16 points in Semi-Final 2

Longtrack

Grand-Prix Series World Longtrack Best Grand-Prix Results * Herxheim First 2018, Second 2019 *

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First 2019 * Marianske Lazne First 2011 *

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First 2011, Third 2012 *

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First 2018, 2019, Second 2016, Third 2014 * Roden First 2018 * Rzeszow First 2013 *

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Second 2012 World Longtrack Team Championship * 2010 Morizes (First) 49pts (rode with

Matthias Kröger Matthias Kröger (born 24 May 1969''Świat Żużla'', No 1 (74) / 2008, pages 52-53, ) is a German motorcycle speedway rider who rode in 2002 Speedway World Cup. World Longtrack Championship Grand-Prix Years * 1997 5 app (8th) 62pts * 1998 5 ap ...

Stephan Katt Stephan Katt (born 15 September 1979) is a German motorcycle Grasstrack, Longtrack and speedway rider who was a member of Germany national long track team. World Longtrack Championship Grand-Prix * 2000 - 1 apps (24th) 3pts * 2001 - 4 apps (1 ...

, Richard Speiser) * 2011 Scheeßel (First) 56pts (rode with

, Richard Speiser,

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) * 2016 Marianske Lazne (Runners-up) 44pts (rode with Michael Hartel,

)

Grasstrack

European Grasstrack Championship Finals * 2010

Third - 17pts * 2011

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First - 18pts * 2012

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Smolinski, Martin 1984 births Living people German speedway riders Coventry Bees riders Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship riders Sportspeople from Munich