Jerzy Trzeszkowski
| Born | 10 January 1945 Wełecz, Poland |
|---|---|
| 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
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
Individual World Championship
- 1967 –
London, Wembley Stadium – 14th – 3pts - 1968 –
Gothenburg, Ullevi – 14th – 3pts
World Team Cup
- 1967 - Malmö, Malmö Stadion (with Antoni Woryna / Andrzej Wyglenda / Andrzej Pogorzelski / Zbigniew Podlecki) - 2nd - 26pts (4)
References
- ^ "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.