Jerzy Trzeszkowski
Born | 10 January 1945 Wełecz, Poland |
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Nationality | Polish |
Career history | |
Poland | |
1963-1974 | Wrocław |
Great Britain | |
1978 | Swindon Robins |
Sweden | |
1979-1981 | Kaparna |
Individual honours | |
1967, 1968 | Speedway World Championship finalist |
Team honours | |
1980 | Allsvenskan Div 2 (South) Champion |
Jerzy Trzeszkowski (born 10 January 1945) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider from Poland.[1][2] He earned 24 international caps for the Poland national speedway team.[3]
Speedway career
[edit]Trzeszkowski reached the final of the Speedway World Championship on two occasions in the 1967 Individual Speedway World Championship and the 1968 Individual Speedway World Championship.[4] He toured the United Kingdom with Poland for the first time in 1967.[5]
He rode in the top tier of British Speedway, riding for Swindon Robins,[6] with fellow Pole Leonard Raba,[7] during the 1978 British League season.[8][9]
World final appearances
[edit]Individual World Championship
[edit]- 1967 – London, Wembley Stadium – 14th – 3pts
- 1968 – Gothenburg, Ullevi – 14th – 3pts
World Team Cup
[edit]- 1967 - Malmö, Malmö Stadion (with Antoni Woryna / Andrzej Wyglenda / Andrzej Pogorzelski / Zbigniew Podlecki) - 2nd - 26pts (4)
References
[edit]- ^ "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "Jerzy Trzeszkowski Polska". Polish Speedway Database. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ^ "Ultimate Rider Index, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
- ^ "World Speedway finals" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "New faces". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 8 July 1967. Retrieved 10 October 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "History Archive". British Speedway. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ^ "Robins banking on the unknown". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 11 March 1978. Retrieved 7 March 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.