The 1951 Polish Speedway season was the 1951 season of motorcycle speedway in Poland.
Individual Polish Individual Speedway Championship The 1951 Individual Speedway Polish Championship was held in Wrocław on 14 October 1951.
Pos. RiderClub TotalPoints1 Wlodzimierz Szwendrowski Bytom 14(2,3,3,3,3)2 Alfred Spyra Rybnik 14 (3,2,3,3,3)3 Zbigniew Raniszewski Bydgoszcz 13 (3,3,1,3,3)4 Stanisław Glapiak Leszno 11 (d,3,3,2,3)5 Tadeusz Fijałkowski Warszawa 10 (3,2,2,2,1)6 Janusz Suchecki Warszawa 9 (2,0,3,2,2)7 Bolesław Bonin Bydgoszcz 9 (3,1,2,1,2)8 Paweł Dziura Rybnik 7 (2,3,1,1,w)9 Józef Olejniczak Leszno 6 (1,u,d,3,2)10 Eugeniusz Zenderowski Warszawa 6 (d,1,2,2,1)11 Leszek Próchniak Warszawa 6 (2,2,d,0,2)12 Jan Kwaśniewski Warszawa 4 (1,1,1,0,1)13 Edward Kupczynski Wrocław 3 (1,2,u,0,0)14 Marian Kaznowski Częstochowa 3 (1,1,0,1,0)15 Stefan Maciejewski Ostrów Wlkp. 2 (0,0,2,0,0)16 Marian Spychała Rawicz 2 (0,0,1,0,1)
Criterium of Aces The Criterium of Aces was won by Zbigniew Raniszewski.
Team Team Speedway Polish Championship The 1951 Team Speedway Polish Championship was the fourth edition of the Team Polish Championship.
Rules In First League, matches were played on a one leg basis only. Teams were made up of 6 riders and 2 reserves. Heat scoring was: 3–2–1–0 and matches consisted of 9 heats. For winning a match a team received 2 points. The rider from a main squad started in a match three times. The quantity of small points was added up.
Before the season the Main Commission of Physical Education (Polish: Główna Komisja Kultury Fizycznej, GKKF) and Sport' Commission of Polish Motor Union selected ten teams to establish the league: six teams who representatives of Sport Unions of Professional Associations (Zrzeszenia Sportowych Związków Zawodowych): Unia Leszno, Budowlani Warszawa, Ogniwo Bytom, Górnik Rybnik, Stal Ostrów Wlkp. and Kolejarz Rawicz, one team who representatives of Army: CWKS Warszawa, one team who representatives of Police: Gwardia Bydgoszcz after Race-Off, two other teams: Włókniarz Częstochowa and Spójnia Wrocław.
On 23 April 1951 in Rzeszów Police' Speedway Clubs played Race-Off. Gwardia Bydgoszcz won and qualified to the league. In this event Gwardia Poznań and Gwardia Rzeszow played.
First League Pos Team Match Points Won Lost +/-1 Unia Leszno 9 16 8 1 +1122 Gwardia Bydgoszcz 9 14 7 2 +1073 Górnik Rybnik 9 14 7 2 +704 CWKS Warszawa 9 12 6 3 +245 Ogniwo Bytom 9 10 5 4 +316 Budowlani Warszawa 9 6 3 6 +247 Stal Ostrów Wielkopolski 9 6 3 6 −168 Kolejarz Rawicz 9 6 3 6 −769 Włókniarz Częstochowa 9 4 2 7 −13710 Spójnia Wrocław 9 2 1 8 −139
Medalists Unia Leszno Józef Olejniczak, Stanisław Glapiak, Henryk Woźniak, Jan Malinowski, Kazimierz Bentke, Zbigniew Chałupczak, Stanisław Przybylski, Jan Najdrowski, Zbigniew Sander, Ryszard Gościniak, Czesław Szałkowski, Baranowski, BruchGwardia Bydgoszcz Eugeniusz Nazimek, Bolesław Bonin, Zbigniew Raniszewski, Franciszek Śrubkowski, Józef Buda, Feliks Błajda, Staromiejski, Kielar, Kazimierz Kurek, Roman Zakrzewski, Antosiewicz, Jerzy Jeżewski, Zygmunt GaryantosiewiczBudowlani Rybnik Paweł Dziura, Alfred Spyra, Ludwik Draga, Robert Nawrocki, Józef Wieczorek, Baron
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