Jerzy Trzeszkowski

Polish speedway rider

Jerzy TrzeszkowskiBorn| 10 January 1945 (1945-01-10)
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

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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

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### Individual World Championship

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* 1967 –  London, Wembley Stadium – 14th – 3pts
* 1968 –  Gothenburg, Ullevi – 14th – 3pts

### World Team Cup

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* 1967 \-  Malmö, Malmö Stadion (with Antoni Woryna / Andrzej Wyglenda / Andrzej Pogorzelski / Zbigniew Podlecki) - 2nd \- 26pts (4)

## References

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1. ^ "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
2. ^ "Jerzy Trzeszkowski Polska". Polish Speedway Database. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
3. ^ "Ultimate Rider Index, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
4. ^ "World Speedway finals" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
5. ^ "New faces". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 8 July 1967. Retrieved 10 October 2024 - via British Newspaper Archive.
6. ^ "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
7. ^ "History Archive". British Speedway. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
8. ^ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
9. ^ "Robins banking on the unknown". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 11 March 1978. Retrieved 7 March 2024 - via British Newspaper Archive.

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