2020 Polish speedway season explained

2020 Polish speedway season
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The 2020 Polish Speedway season was the 2020 season of motorcycle speedway in Poland.[1]

Unia Leszno won the Ekstraliga and were awarded the gold medal and declared Polish Team Champions. The teams finishing second and third were awarded silver and bronze medals respectively.[2] [3] KS Toruń won the 1. Liga and Wilki Krosno won the 2. Liga.

Individual

Polish Individual Speedway Championship

The 2020 Individual Speedway Polish Championship final was held on 7 September at the Stadion im. Alfreda Smoczyka in Leszno.[4] Maciej Janowski won the individual title after recording a 15-point maximum in the heats leading up to the final race.

width=25pxPos. width=200pxRider width=100pxPointswidth=80pxTotalwidth=80pxFinal
1 (3,3,3,3,3) 153
2 (2,3,1,1,3)102
3 (3,3,2,3,1) 121
4 (1,1,3,3,2)100
5 (1,2,3,2,2)10
6 Piotr Pawlicki Jr.(2,2,1,2,3) 10
7 (3,1,0,3,1) 8
8 Jarosław Hampel(3,3,0,1,0) 7
9 Bartosz Smektała(1,2,2,1,1) 7
10Krystian Pieszczek(2,0,3,0,1) 6
11 Kacper Woryna(1,0,1,0,3)5
12 Paweł Przedpełski(0,t,2,1,2) 5
13 Dominik Kubera(0,2,0,2,0) 4
14 (2,x,2,0,0)4
15 (0,1,0,0,2) 3
16 Krzysztof Kasprzak(0,0,1,2,x)3
17 Jakub Jamróg (res) (1)1
18 Adrian Miedziński (res)(dnr)x

Golden Helmet

The 2020 Golden Golden Helmet (Polish: Turniej o Złoty Kask, ZK) organised by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) was the 2020 event for the league's leading riders. The final was held at Bydgoszcz on the 27 July. Bartosz Zmarzlik won the Golden Helmet.[5]

width=25pxPos. width=200pxRiderwidth=200pxClub width=80pxTotalwidth=100pxPoints
1 Gorzów Wlkp. 15 (3,3,3,3,3)
2 Częstochowa 12+3 (2,3,2,3,2)
3 Krzysztof KasprzakGorzów Wlkp.12+2(3,2,3,2,2)
4 Leszno11 (1,2,2,3,3)
5 Jarosław HampelLublin10(3,2,0,2,3)
6 Zielona Góra10 (3,3,2,1,1)
7 Rybnik9(0,1,3,3,2)
8 Dominik KuberaLeszno7(1,0,3,2,1)
9 Gorzów Wlkp.6+3 (2,1,1,1,1)
10 Leszno6+2 (0,2,1,0,3)
11 Lublin5(2,0,0,2,1)
12 Tarnów4(1,3,0,0,0)
13 Bydgoszcz4(1,0,1,0,2)
14 Grudziądz4 (2,0,1,1,0)
15 Zielona Góra3 (0,1,2,0,0)
16 Częstochowa2 (0,1,0,1,0)

Junior Championship

Silver Helmet

Bronze Helmet

Pairs

Polish Pairs Speedway Championship

The 2020 Polish Pairs Speedway Championship was the 2020 edition of the Polish Pairs Speedway Championship. The final was held on 5 August at Gdańsk.[6]

width=20Poswidth=200Teamwidth=20Ptswidth=500Riders
1 Leszno29Piotr Pawlicki Jr. 13, Dominik Kubera 16
2 Zielona Góra21+3Patryk Dudek 8, Piotr Protasiewicz 13+3
3 Wrocław21+2Maciej Janowski 14+2, Gleb Chugunov 7
4 Gorzów 18Bartosz Zmarzlik 13, Szymon Woźniak 5
5 Częstochowa 16Bartlomiej Kowalski 5, Jakub Miśkowiak 11
6 Gdańsk11 Krystian Pieszczek 8, Robert Chmiel 2, Karol Zupinski 1
7 Rybnik10Przemysław Girea 0, Mateusz Szczepaniak 10

Team

Team Speedway Polish Championship

The 2020 Team Speedway Polish Championship was the 2020 edition of the Team Polish Championship.[7] Unia Leszno won the gold medal for the fourth successive season.[8] The team included Emil Saifutdinov, Janusz Kołodziej, Piotr Pawlicki Jr., Bartosz Smektała and Dominik Kubera.[9]

Ekstraliga

width=20Poswidth=300Teamwidth=20Pwidth=20Wwidth=20Dwidth=20Lwidth=20BPwidth=20Pts
1 141103628
2 14806521
3 14725420
4 14815320
5 14626519
6 Motor Lublin14806319
7 Grudziądz14419110
8 14101302

Play-offs

Semi-finals

width=200Team 1width=200Team 2width=100Score
Zielona GoraLeszno 44–46, 33–57
GorzowWroclaw 44–46, 34–55
Final
width=200Team 1width=200Team 2width=100Score
Wroclaw Leszno 46–46, 30–59

1. Liga

width=20Poswidth=300Teamwidth=20Pwidth=20Pts
1 1429
2 1425
3 1422
4 1417
5 1415
6 Ostrów1414
7 1411
8 147

No play-offs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2. Liga

width=20Poswidth=300Teamwidth=20Pwidth=20Pts
1 1025
2 1018
3 1010
4 108
5 Kolejarz Rawicz108
6 106

No play-offs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: HISTORICAL RESULTS 1948-2023 . Speedway History . 19 February 2023.
  2. Web site: 2020 Ekstraliga . Polish Speedway Database . 19 February 2023.
  3. Web site: 2020 . PGE Ekstraliga . 19 February 2023.
  4. Web site: Polish final 2019 . WWOS Backup . 2 March 2023.
  5. Web site: Final of the Golden Helmet in Bydgoszcz . Sportowe Fakty . 2 March 2023.
  6. Web site: Polish pairs championship . Speedway History . 4 March 2023.
  7. Web site: Polish Team Championship DMP . Speedway.hg . 2 March 2023.
  8. Web site: Drużynowe Mistrzostwa Polski (PGE Ekstraliga) . Speedway Fansite . 2 March 2023.
  9. Web site: 2020 Leszno team statistics . Polish Speedway Database . 2 March 2023.