Alfred Smoczyk Explained

Alfred Smoczyk
Nationality:	Polish
Birth Place:	Kościan, Poland
Death Place:	near Gostyń, Poland
Career1:	Unia Leszno
Years1:	1948–1949
Career2:	CWKS Warszawa
Years2:	1950
Indivyear1:	1949
Indivhonour1:	Polish Champion
Teamyear1:	1949
Teamhonour1:	Polish league Winner

Alfred Smoczyk (11 October 1928 – 26 September 1950) was an international motorcycle speedway rider from Poland.^[1]

Speedway career

Smoczyk was the first champion of Poland, winning the Polish Individual Speedway Championship in 1949.^{[2] [3]}

In 1950, he was killed in a motorcycle accident in the Kąkolewski forest, near Gostyń.^[4] Later that year on 30 September, the Polish President Bolesław Bierut posthumously awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

In 1951, a tournament in Leszno was named in his memory^[5] and in 1953 the Stadion im. Alfreda Smoczyka was named after him.^[6]

See also

• List of recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Notes and References

1. Web site: Passion for speedway . Leszno - Rozwiń Skrzydła . 12 September 2024 .
2. Book: Bott, Richard. The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. 1980. 101. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. 0-09-141751-1.
3. Web site: Polish Individual Speedway Championship . Historia Sportu Zuzlowego . 29 December 2022.
4. Web site: Alfred Smoczyk . Motorsport memorial . 29 December 2022.
5. Web site: ALFRED SMOCZYK MEMORIAL . FIM . 29 December 2022.
6. Web site: Stadion im. Alfreda Smoczyka (Stadion Unii Leszno) . Stadium Database . 29 December 2022.