Once more, all the best world's riders including Nicki Pedersen, Jason
Crump, Tomasz Gollob or Adams, Hancock... will be riding in Polish
Speedway Extraleague. Every match gathers about ten thousand people.
The biggest, public TV, is doing live transmission. Eight teams, great
stadiums, biggest money- even in the times of the world's financial
crisis. Speedway season starts on 5th April.
Adams, Hampel, Kasprzak, Pavlic or Batchelor and Balinski from Leszno
team are the main candidates for the gold medal in 2009 . The eyes of
the polish people will be on Pawlicki as well as he is one of the most
talented young riders in Speedway Extraleague (except Janowski from
Wroclaw).
Transfer of the winter was way of Hans Andersen from Torun to
Gdansk - the team, which has come back to take part again in SE after an interval of couple of years (unofficially, Andersen have been given
about half million euro).
2009 SQUADS:
Unibax TORUN - current champions
Seniors:
Wiesław Jagus - 2,240
Ryan Sullivan - 2,186
Chris Holder - 2,107
Adrian Miedzinski - 1,911
Robert Kosciecha - 1,855
Martin Smolinski - 1,465 (lower league)
Tomasz Bajerski - 1,959 (lower league)
Juniors:
Damian Celmer - 0,650 (not rated)
Mateusz Lampkowski - 0,500 (not rated)
Matej Kus - 2,424 (lowest league)
Oskar Pieniazek - debutant
Kamil Pulczyński - deb.
Emil Pulczyński - deb.
Darcy Ward (Australia) - deb.
Coach: Jan Zabik
Unia LESZNO:
Seniors:
Jaroslaw Hampel - 2,283
Leigh Adams - 2,273
Krzysztof Kasprzak - 2,010
Damian Balinski - 1,826
Adam Shields - 1,846 (not rated)
Robert Kasprzak - 1,192 (not rated)
Troy Batchelor - 1,108 (not rated)
Juniors:
Jurica Pavlic - 1,618
Przemyslaw Pawlicki - 1,700 (not rated)
Pawel Ratajszczak - 0,156 (lower league, not rated)
Slawomir Musielak - 1,297 (lowest league)
Mateusz Lukaszewski - deb.
Richard Sweetman - deb.
Justin Sedgmen - deb.
Ryan Sedgmen - deb.
Coach: Czeslaw Czernicki
Falubaz ZIELONA GORA:
Seniors:
Grzegorz Walasek - 2,080
Rafal Dobrucki - 1,859
Piotr Protasiewicz - 1,850
Fredrik Lindgren - 1,663
Niels Kristian Iversen - 1,359
Juniors:
Grzegorz Zengota - 1,433
Artiom Wodjakow - 1,167 (not rated)
Ludvig Lindgren - 0,571 (not rated)
Janusz Baniak - 0,000 (not rated)
Patryk Dudek - deb.
Tomasz Halicki -deb.
Pawel Gwozdz - deb.
Mateusz Lukowiak - deb.
Coach: Piotr Zyto
Cognor Wlokniarz CZESTOCHOWA:
Seniors:
Nicki Pedersen - 2,775
Greg Hancock - 2,505
Lee Richardson - 2,000
Tomasz Gapinski - 1,857
Slawomir Drabik - 1,341
Mateusz Szczepaniak - 1,000
Michal Szczepaniak - 1,107 (not rated)
Juniors:
Borys Miturski - 0,938 (not rated)
Tai Woffinden - 0,886 (n.r.)
Marcin Piekarski - deb.
Cezary Romanczuk - deb.
Kamil Mistygacz - deb.
Kamil Cieslar - deb.
Dawid Bak - deb.
Marcin Bubel - deb.
Adrian Osmolski - deb.
Alexander Edberg - deb.
Coach: Grzegorz Dzikowski
Atlas WROCLAW:
Seniors:
Jason Crump - 2,584
Tomasz Jedrzejak - 1,776
Scott Nicholls - 1,754
Daniel Jeleniewski - 1,507
Davey Watt - 1,449
Juniors:
Maciej Janowski - 1,413
Ben Barker - 2,000 (n.r.)
Leon Madsen - 0,400 (n.r.)
Marek Lozowicki - deb.
Dennis Andersson - deb.
Coach: Marek Cieslak
Caelum Stal GORZOW:
Seniors:
Tomasz Gollob - 2,390
Rune Holta - 1,939
Peter Karlsson - 1,813
David Ruud - 2,026 (lower league)
Matej Zagar - 1,757
Rafal Okoniewski - 2,031 (lower league)
Jacek Gollob - 1,136 (lower league)
Juniors:
Thomas H. Jonasson - 1,129
Adrian Szewczykowski - 0,706
Pawel Zmarzlik - 0,000 (n.r.)
Lukasz Cyran - 0,000 (n.r.)
Jari Makinen - deb.
Coach: Stanislaw Chomski
Polonia BYDGOSZCZ:
Seniors:
Andreas Jonsson - 2,578 (lower l.)
Tomasz Chrzanowski - 2,240 (lower l.)
Antonio Lindbaeck - 1,956 (lower l.)
Krzysztof Buczkowski - 1,916 (lower l.)
Jonas Davidsson - 1,847 (lower l.)
Marcin Jedrzejewski - 1,628 (lower l.)
Daniel Davidsson - deb.
Juniors:
Emil Saifutdinov - 2,535 (lower)
Damian Adamczak - 0,000 (lower, n.r.)
Szymon Wozniak - deb.
Mikolaj Curylo - deb.
Miroslaw Konieczny - deb.
Jonas Andersson - deb.
Coach: Zenon Plech
Lotos Wybrzeze GDANSK:
Seniors:
Hans Andersen - 2,000
Kenneth Bjerre - 1,432
Adam Skornicki - 2,150 (lower)
Magnus Zetterstroem - 2,132 (lower)
Joonas Kylmaekorpi - 2,089 (lower)
Renat Gafurov - 1,571 (lower)
Tobias Kroner - 1,806 (lower, n.r.)
Tomasz Piszcz - 0,692 (lower, n.r.)
Juniors:
Martin Vaculik - 1,258
Billy Forsberg - 1,167 (lower)
Josh Auty - (lower, n.r.)
Damian Sperz - 0,829 (lower, n.r.)
Andriej Kobrin - 0,000 (lower, n.r.)
Sonke Petersen - deb.
Dariusz Rybakowski - deb.
Coach: Robert Sawina
First turn - 5 th April:
Zielona Gora - Czestochowa (our type - 47:46)
Leszno - Gorzow (our type - 49:41)
Gdansk - Torun (our type - 46:44)
Bydgoszcz - Wroclaw (our type: 52:41)
Story by Marcin Szymanski, motormax.pl (marszym81@wp.pl)
