| Stadium Name: | Olympic Stadium |
| Native Name: | Stadion Olimpijski |
| Native Name Lang: | pl |
| Fullname: | Olympic Stadium in Wrocław |
| Location: | Wrocław, Poland |
| Coordinates: | 51.1194°N 17.0967°W |
| Built: | 1926–1928 |
| Opened: | 1928 |
| Renovated: | 1935–1939 |
| Owner: | City of Wrocław |
| Surface: | Artificial Grass (football) Shale (speedway) |
| Architect: | Richard Konwiarz |
| Former Names: | Schlesierkampfbahn (1928–1935) Hermann Göring Stadium (1935–1939) |
| Seating Capacity: | 11,000[1] |
The Olympic Stadium (Polish: Stadion Olimpijski) is a multi-purpose stadium in Wrocław, Poland. It is the home stadium of speedway team Sparta Wrocław and American football team Panthers Wrocław.
The stadium has a capacity now of 11,000 people and was supposed to be one of the main pitches on UEFA Euro 2012. The newly constructed Stadion Miejski was used for that event instead.
The stadium was built from 1926 to 1928 as Schlesierkampfbahn (Silesian Arena) according to a design by Richard Konwiarz. It was part of a larger sports complex in the city district of Zalesie (then Leerbeutel), again extended from 1935 to 1939 and renamed Hermann–Göring–Stadion under the Nazi German authorities. On 16 May 1937, it was the site of the legendary Breslau Eleven football match, when the Germany national football team defeated Denmark 8–0. Despite its current Polish name, the arena has never been an Olympic Games site (in particular, for the 1936 Summer Olympics); however the builder Richard Konwiarz achieved a bronze medal in the art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles for his architectural design.
Heavily devastated during the Siege of Breslau in World War II, the stadium was rebuilt by the Polish municipal administration and named after General Karol Świerczewski. From the 1970s it was used by the Wrocław University School of Physical Education and comprehensively modernized with floodlights and an undersoil heating. The Wrocław city administration assumed ownership in 2006 and had the speedway racing track rebuilt, whereafter the smaller football pitch no longer meets the requirements of UEFA stadium categories.
The speedway track is 387m (1,270feet) in length.
The stadium has hosted the Speedway Grand Prix of Poland in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, and 2000. It also was a venue of the Speedway Grand Prix of Europe in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007. The stadium has hosted american football competition and motorcycle speedway competition at 2017 World Games.
Ivan Mauger – 15pts
Gary Havelock – 14pts
Sweden (Anders Michanek / Tommy Jansson) – 24pts
Poland (Marian Kaiser / Henryk Żyto / Florian Kapała / Mieczysław Połukard / Stanislaw Tkocz) – 32pts Poland (Andrzej Pogorzelski / Marian Rose / Antoni Woryna / Andrzej Wyglenda) – 41pts Great Britain (Ray Wilson / Ivan Mauger / Jim Airey / Barry Briggs / Ronnie Moore)* – 37pts
Australia (Jason Crump / Leigh Adams / Ryan Sullivan / Todd Wiltshire / Craig Boyce) – 68pts Poland (Tomasz Gollob / Piotr Protasiewicz / Jarosław Hampel / Rune Holta / Grzegorz Walasek) – 62pts Tomasz Gollob
Greg Hancock Tomasz Gollob Tony Rickardsson Jason Crump Bartosz Zmarzlik
– Artem Laguta Maciej Janowski Bartosz Zmarzlik Bartosz Zmarzlik| No | Date | Host | – | Opponent | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 2 November 1930 | – | ||||
| 2. | 15 September 1935 | Germany | – | |||
| 3. | 16 May 1937 | Germany | – | |||
| 4. | 12 November 1939 | Germany | – | |||
| 5. | 7 December 1941 | Germany | – | |||
| 6. | 14 May 1950 | – | ||||
| 7. | 10 May 1953 | – | ||||
| 8. | 26 August 1956 | – | ||||
| 9. | 21 June 1959 | – | ||||
| 10. | 22 October 1961 | – | ||||
| 11. | 18 May 1966 | – | ||||
| 12. | 28 July 1967 | – | ||||
| 13. | 16 May 1973 | – | ||||
| 14. | 7 September 1974 | – | ||||
| 15. | 12 November 1977 | – | ||||
| 16. | 15 November 1978 | – | ||||
| 17. | 15 November 1981 | – | ||||
| 18. | 28 October 1983 | – | ||||
| 19. | 24 March 1987 | – |