1. Bartosz Zmarzlik is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider, a five-time World Champion, three-time World Team Champion, World Junior Champion and European Junior Champion.
14 Facts About Bartosz Zmarzlik
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Bartosz Zmarzlik is the third Polish rider in history, after Jerzy Szczakiel and Tomasz Gollob, to win an individual World Championship title.
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Bartosz Zmarzlik was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta, V class in 2019 and won the Polish Sports Personality of the Year title in 2020 becoming the second speedway rider to accomplish this feat.
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Bartosz Zmarzlik first came to the attention of the British speedway public when he was granted a wild card to race in the 2012 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland on 23 June.
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Bartosz Zmarzlik performed exceptionally well and became the youngest rider to ever appear on the podium in a Speedway Grand Prix, aged just 17 years and 72 days.
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Bartosz Zmarzlik finished third that day scoring a grand total of 13 points.
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Bartosz Zmarzlik made his British league debut in 2014, agreeing a short-term deal to ride for the Birmingham Brummies to cover the injured Adam Skornicki.
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Bartosz Zmarzlik duly rode in 2016 Grand Prix as a permanent rider for the first time in his career, taking third place in the standings.
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Bartosz Zmarzlik signed to ride for Slangerup in the Danish league in 2019.
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Bartosz Zmarzlik won his third World Championship title in 2022 after securing the 2002 title.
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Bartosz Zmarzlik won the Championship with ease, collecting 166 points, which was of 33 points clear of his nearest rival and included three grand prix wins in Croatia, Denmark and Sweden.
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Bartosz Zmarzlik became the first rider since 2002 to successfully defend the Polish national title.
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Bartosz Zmarzlik won his second successive European Team Speedway Championship and then won three of the first five Grand Prix of the season in Gorican, Teterow and Gorzow respectively.
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Bartosz Zmarzlik and equalled Jason Crump's record of 23 Grand Prix wins and five in one season.