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1949 Polish speedway season
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Season of speedway in Poland
February 2023
1949 Polish speedway season File:Smoczyk - Pomnik.JPG 200px Statue of Alfred Smoczyk in Leszno 1948 1950
The 1949 Polish Speedway season was the 1949 season of motorcycle speedway in Poland.http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/druzynowemp.php HISTORICAL RESULTS 1948-2023 Speedway History 20 February 2023http://www.speedwayw.pl/pl_1949.htm Historia Speedway Polsce 1949 Speedway History 20 February 2023
Individual
Polish Individual Speedway Championship
The 1949 Individual Speedway Polish Championship was held in Leszno on 23 October 1949. It was the fifth running of the Championship.
Result
Pos. RiderClub PointsTotal1 Alfred Smoczyk (Unia Leszno) 16 (4,4,4,4)2 Eugeniusz Zendrowski (Związkowiec Warszawa) 15(4,3,4,4)3 Jan Paluch (Polonia-Ogniwo Bytom) 14 (4,4,2,4)4 Ludwik Rataj (KM-Stal Ostrów Wlkp.) 13 (3,3,4,3)5 Bonifacy Szpitalniak (KM-Stal Ostrów Wlkp.) 11 (4,1,3,3)6 Jan Najdrowski (Olimpia-Unia Grudziądz) 10 (3,3,2,2)7 Paweł Dziura (Polonia-Ogniwo Bytom) 9 (2,2,3,2)8 Ryszard Morawski (Związkowiec Warszawa) 7 (3,1,N,3)9 Henryk Woźniak (Unia Leszno) 6 (E,2,N,4)10 Tadeusz Kołeczek (Tramwajarz-Ogniwo Łódź) 5 (2,3,E,E)11 Czesław Szałkowski (Olimpia-Unia Grudziądz) 3 (3,E,N,N)12 Mieczysław Chlebicz (Związkowiec W-wa) 3 (2,1,F,N)13 Józef Olejniczak (Unia Leszno) 0 (E,E,E,N)
E – retired or mechanical failure •
F – fell •
N – non-starter
Team Speedway Polish Championship
The 1949 Team Speedway Polish Championship was the second edition of the Team Polish Championship.http://speedwayfansite.com/ligi/pgeekstraliga.html Drużynowe Mistrzostwa Polski (PGE Ekstraliga) Speedway Fansite 3 March 2023http://www.speedway.hg.pl/zyx_dodatek_specjalny/turnieje_polskie_historia/DMP.htm Polish Team Championship DMP Speedway.hg 3 March 2023
In First and Second League, matches were played with part three teams. Teams were made up of 3 riders plus 1 reserve. The event consisted of 9 races. In one day were played three three-cornered matches. For winning a match a team received 3 points, for second place 2 points, and for third 1 point. In every heat scoring was 3–2–1 and 0 if no-completion heat. The drivers with the main squad of a team started in a match 3 times. The quantity of small points was added up.http://rlach.republika.pl/pl_1949.htm 1949 Polish leagues Roman Lach – Polish Speedway Almanac 20 February 2023 16 October 2002 https://web.archive.org/web/20021016022958/http://rlach.republika.pl/pl_1949.htm dead
First League
Pos Team Match Match Pts Heats Pts1 Unia Leszno 4 12 982 KM-Stal Ostrów Wlkp. 4 8.5 822 Skra-Związkowiec Warszawa 4 8.5 724 Polonia-Ogniwo Bytom 4 8.5 715 PKM-Ogniwo Warszawa 4 8 596 Olimpia-Unia Grudziądz 4 7.5 627 Tramwajarz-Ogniwo Łódź 4 7 678 RKM-Budowlani Rybnik 4 7 579 MK-Kolejarz Rawicz 4 5 54
Any team was relegated to lower division.
Medalists
Unia Leszno Józef Olejniczak 2.84, Alfred Smoczyk 3.00, Henryk Woźniak 2.08, Wacław Andrzejewski, JuchniakStal Ostrów Wlkp. Stefan Maciejewski 2.50, Bonifacy Szpitalniak, Ludwik Rataj, Piotr Poprawa, Marian RejekSkra-Związkowiec Warszawa Ryszard Morawski, Jan Kwaśniewski, Eugeniusz Zendrowski 2.58, Jan Filipczak, Jan Wąsikowski
Second League
Pos Team Match Match Pts Heats Pts1 Polonia-Gwardia Bydgoszcz 4 11 902 CTCiM Częstochowa 4 11 843 GKM-Związkowiec Gdańsk 4 10 714 RTKM-Gwardia Rzeszów 4 9 785 Unia Chodzież 4 8 626 Unia Poznań 4 6 547 Motoklub Rawicz II 3 4 408 DKM-Włókniarz Łódź 3 3 269 Lechia-Włókniarz Poznań 3 3 26
Event between Rawicz, Łódź and Poznań was cancelled and never replayed.
References
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