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Maksym Drabik

Polish speedway rider

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ21524061 ↗
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Maksym Drabik (born 22 February 1998) is an international speedway rider from Poland.

Speedway career

Drabik won the gold medal at the World Under-21 Championship in the 2017 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship and the 2019 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship.

In 2021, Drabik was banned for breaking anti-doping rules (vitamin injection) by the Polish Doping Agency, the ban was back dated from 30 October 2020 (when he was initially suspended) to the 30 October 2021. In 2022, he helped Lublin win the 2022 Ekstraliga.

World final appearances

World Under-21 Championship

2015 - 15th - 10pts

2016 - =21st - 0pts

2017 - 1st - 49pts

2018 - 2nd - 54pts

2019 - 1st - 49pts

Family

His father Sławomir Drabik was also a Polish international speedway rider.

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