KS Toruń
Polish motorcycle speedway team
KS Toruń, (informally known as Apator Toruń), currently competing as PRES Grupa Deweloperska Toruń, is a Polish motorcycle speedway team from Toruń. The team currently competes in the Ekstraliga (the highest division) and have won the Team Speedway Polish Championship five times (as of 2025).
Team information
Name: Klub Sportowy Toruń SA
Address: 87-100 Toruń, ul. Pera Jonssona 7
Home track: Pera Jonssona 7, Toruń
Home arena capacity: 15,500
History
1930 to 1945
Speedway motorcycles came to Toruń as early as the 1930, where they raced in classes according to engine size. The sport, called "Dirt-track" at the time, carried on in Toruń up until World War II.
1946 to 1956
Immediately after the war, racing resumed and the Toruń's Motorcycle Club (Toruński Klub Motocyklowy) was formed. The speedway team saw its first race in 1950, when races were moved from the Bema street Municipal Stadium to the then Military Stadium at Ulica Broniewskiego.
1957 to 1961
In 1957, due to regulatory requirements, a major renovation took place and the new facilities opened on 20 October 1957. The stadium was now named after Zbigniew Raniszewski, a Toruń speedway rider who lost his life in a race in Vienna on 21 April 1956. From 1957, the speedway club operated under the Friends of Soldiers League (Liga Przyjaciół Żołnierza), and one year later Toruń officially raced under the league and won with Unia Leszno. During the 1959 Polish speedway season, the riders from Copernicus's birthplace appeared in the third league placing second to last (7th).
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