ZKŻ Zielona Góra
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| ZKŻ Kronopol Zielona Góra | |||
![]() |
|||
| Club Information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Track Address | ul. Wrocławska 69 65-019 Zielona Góra |
||
| Country | Poland | ||
| Founded | 1946 | ||
| League | Speedway Ekstraliga | ||
| Website | Official site | ||
| Club Facts | |||
| Colours | Yellow, White and Green | ||
| Track size | 340,25 m | ||
| Track record time | 60.68 seconds | ||
| Track record date | June 22, 2007 | ||
| Track record holder | Grzegorz Walasek | ||
| Major Team Honours | |||
ZKŻ Kronopol Zielona Góra is a Polish speedway team based in Zielona Góra who currently races in Speedway Ekstraliga. The club has won Polish Speedway League 4 times (latest in 1991). It is commonly known as Falubaz due to one of its former names.
Contents |
[edit] Stadium
The stadium, informally named as W69, is located on 69 Wrocławska Street. It contains 15,000 seats, but except for the most interesting matches, the capacity is reduced to only 12,000. The track is 340.25 metres long and has a granite surface. It has had an inflatable airfence since May 4, 2006.
The stadium is currently being renovated. Some of the benches are being replaced with plastic seats, the floodlights have been erected, the cash desks and the fence were modernised. The track was widened on the bends and the club's new headquarters has been built and moved from 31 Dworcowa Street.
[edit] History
[edit] Early years (1946-1960)
The club was founded in 1946 with the establishing of a motorcycle department of Militia Sports Club (Polish Milicyjny Klub Sportowy). The first speedway race in the city took place on a 4.5 kilometre long track on October 20, 1946. The winner was Nijaki[1], before Henryk Szurkowski and Alfons Kostusiak.
In 1947 Mieczysław Chlebisz, a re-emigrant from the UK, arrived back to the city, bringing the first professional speedway motorcycle as used in many speedway leagues, including Britain. In the same year a District Speedway League (Polish Okręgowa Liga Żużlowa) was set up, containing 10 teams, including Leszczyński Klub Motorowy, Ostrowski Klub Motorowy, Unia Gniezno, Unia Gorzów and Unia Zielona Góra.
The club's riders were (in alphabetical order): Jerzy Błoch, Mieczysław Chlebicz, Kazimierz Juzala, Alfons Kostusiak, Ksawery Sawicki, Józef Śmigielski, Stanisław Świstak and Marian Zadoń.
[edit] 2008 Team
Squad in 2008:
- Seniors:
POL Grzegorz Walasek (captain) - 2,048
SWE Fredrik Lindgren - 1,770
POL Piotr Protasiewicz - 2,012
DNK Niels Kristian Iversen - 1,837
POL Rafał Dobrucki - 1,689
DNK Charlie Gjedde - 1,725
POL Mariusz Staszewski - 1,357
POL Adam Kulczyński
- Juniors
POL Grzegorz Zengota - 0,946
SWE Ricky Kling - 0,905
DEU Kevin Wölbert - 0,833
POL Janusz Baniak
POL Paweł Gwóźdź
POL Przemysław Zarzycki
POL Mateusz Łukowiak
DNK Nicolai Klindt - 0,800
RUS Artem Wodjakow
RUS Aleksandr Kosołapkin
SWE Ludvig Lindgren
[edit] References
- ^ The name is not known.
[edit] External links
- Official website Polski
- Zielona Góra sports portal – speedway section Polski
- Falubaz.com – archive of speedway in Zielona Góra Polski
|
|||||||


