Alfred Smoczyk

Alfred Smoczyk
Alfred Smoczyk Monument in Leszno
Born11 October 1928 (1928-10-11)
Kościan, Poland
Died26 September 1950(1950-09-26) (aged 21)
near Gostyń, Poland
NationalityPolish
Career history
1948–1949Unia Leszno
1950CWKS Warszawa
Individual honours
1949Polish Champion
Team honours
1949Polish league Winner

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

Speedway career

Smoczyk was the first champion of Poland, winning the Polish Individual Speedway Championship in 1949.

In 1950, Smoczyk was killed in a motorcycle accident in the Kąkolewski forest, near Gostyń. 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 Smoczyk's memory and in 1953 the Stadion im. Alfreda Smoczyka was named after him.

See also

References

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