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TZ Ostrovia Ostrów Wielkopolski

Polish motorcycle speedway team

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Source revisionOct 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ11732957 ↗
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TZ Ostrovia Ostrów Wielkopolski formerly the Klub Motorowy Ostrów Wielkopolski are a Polish motorcycle speedway team based in Ostrów Wielkopolski. The team currently race in the 1. Liga.

Stadium

The Ostrów Wielkopolski Municipal Stadium (Polish: Stadion Miejski w Ostrowie Wielkopolskim) is located on ulica Piłsudskiego (Piłsudski street). It contains 12,000 seats. The track is 372 metres long and has a granite surface. The track record was made by Robert Miśkowiak (63.05 sec on 28 June 2009).

History

1948 to 1959

The club competed in the inaugural 1948 Polish speedway season, under the name of Klub Motorowy Ostrów Wielkopolski and won the silver medal the following year in 1949. In 1950, the second honour came to the club, now known as Stal Ostrów Wielkopolski, when they won the bronze medal.

In 1953, the speedway operation of Stal Ostrów Wlkp.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 1948, 1959, 1949—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947-03-23. The account is most persuasive where Ostrovia, Ostrów and Wielkopolski can be independently traced.
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