Alfred Smoczyk Stadium
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Alfred Smoczyk Stadium (Template:Langx) is a stadium in Leszno, Poland. It is currently used for speedway matches and is the home stadium of Unia Leszno. The stadium has a capacity of 16,700 people.
The stadium is located on ulica Strzelecka 7.
History
Alfred Smoczyk (1928–1950) was the first Polish speedway superstar. He successfully competed on Dutch tracks in the late 1940s, but died in a road accident in October 1950.[1] He was the first Individual Polish Champion after World War II (in 1949). The year after his death in 1951, the Alfred Smoczyk Memorial event was first held and shortly afterwards in April 1952, plans were put into action to build a new speedway stadium.[2]
The opening of the new stadium took place on 19 April 1953. In 1960, the stadium hosted a qualifying round of the Speedway World Championship.[3][4]
In 1974/75 the track was replaced and the stands were expanded to increase the capacity to 40,000. In 1977, as part of the national harvest celebrations and the visit of Edward Gierek to Leszno, the stadium underwent a major renovation and modernisation, opening on 11 September 1977.
In 1984, the stadium held the first of four World Cup finals, the first being the 1984 edition followed by 2007, 2009 and 2017.[5] In-between, it also hosted the final of the 1989 Speedway World Pairs Championship.[6][7]
The stadium has hosted the Speedway Grand Prix of Europe (a round of the world championship) for five consecutive years from 2008 to 2012.[8]
Track details
The track is Script error: No such module "convert". long and has a syenite surface. The track record was made by Janusz Kołodziej (58.12 sec on 9 May 2010).
Records
| 383 m (1953–1975) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Date | Rider | Club | Meeting |
| 80.0 | 19.04.1953 | Template:Flagicon Stanisław Glapiak | Leszno | friendly: Leszno - Ostrów Wlkp. |
| 77.7 | 05.07.1953 | Template:Flagicon Marian Kuśnierek | Leszno | 1st League: Leszno - Łódź |
| 77.1 | 16.08.1953 | Template:Flagicon Edward Kupczyński | Wrocław | 1st League: Leszno - Wrocław |
| 76.7 | 16.08.1953 | Template:Flagicon Józef Olejniczak | Leszno | 1st League: Leszno - Wrocław |
| 76.4 | 16.08.1953 | Template:Flagicon Józef Olejniczak | Leszno | 1st League: Leszno - Wrocław |
| 76.0 | 13.09.1953 | Template:Flagicon Florian Kapała | Rawicz | III Alfred Smoczyk Memorial |
| 76.0 | 13.06.1954 | Template:Flagicon Andrzej Krzesiński | Leszno | 1st League: Leszno - Wrocław |
| 75.3 | 21.08.1955 | Template:Flagicon Edward Kupczyński | Wrocław | V Alfred Smoczyk Memorial |
| ??.? | 11.04.1960 | Template:Flagicon Kazimierz Bentke | Leszno | 1st League: Leszno - Częstochowa |
| 74.8 | before 22.05.1960 | Template:Flagicon Ove Fundin | - | ? |
| 74.0 | 16.10.1960 | Template:Flagicon Peter Craven | - | Poland - England |
| 73.9 | 21.05.1961 | Template:Flagicon Henryk Żyto | Leszno | 1st League: Leszno - Częstochowa |
| 73.8 | 14.04.1963 | Template:Flagicon Henryk Żyto | Leszno | Polish Motor Union Cup |
| 73.2 | 08.10.1967 | Template:Flagicon Henryk Gluecklich | Bydgoszcz | Poland - Soviet Union |
| 73.1 | 24.10.1971 | Template:Flagicon Zdzisław Dobrucki | Leszno | XXI Aldred Smoczyk Memorial |
| 354 m (1975–1979) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Date | Rider | Club | Meeting |
| 76.4 | 23.03.1975 | Template:Flagicon Kazimierz Adamczak | Leszno | friendly: Leszno - Guestrow |
| 76.0 | 13.04.1975 | Template:Flagicon Jerzy Kowalski | Leszno | Individual Meeting |
| 76.0 | 20.04.1975 | Template:Flagicon Piotr Bruzda | Wrocław | 1st League: Leszno - Wrocław |
| 75.4 | 20.04.1975 | Template:Flagicon Zygfryd Kostka | Wrocław | 1st League: Leszno - Wrocław |
| 75.4 | 20.04.1975 | Template:Flagicon Zbigniew Jąder | Leszno | 1st League: Leszno - Wrocław |
| 74.5 | 01.05.1975 | Template:Flagicon Henryk Gluecklich | Bydgoszcz | 1st League: Leszno - Bydgoszcz |
| 74.5 | 01.05.1975 | Template:Flagicon Jerzy Kowalski | Leszno | 1st League: Leszno - Bydgoszcz |
| 73.4 | 05.06.1975 | Template:Flagicon Bogusław Nowak | Gorzów Wlkp. | Golden Helmet |
| 73.0 | 28.06.1975 | Template:Flagicon Zdzisław Dobrucki | Leszno | Pairs Meeting |
| 71.6 | 29.08.1976 | Template:Flagicon Bernard Jąder | Leszno | Alfred Smoczyk Memorial |
| 71.4 | 26.06.1977 | Template:Flagicon Roman Jankowski | Leszno | U-23 Polish Motor Union Cup |
| 71.4 | 03.07.1977 | Template:Flagicon Bernard Jąder | Leszno | 1st League: Leszno - Opole |
| 71.3 | 24.07.1977 | Template:Flagicon Zdzisław Dobrucki | Leszno | 1st League: Leszno - Lublin |
| 70.6 | 31.07.1977 | Template:Flagicon Józef Jarmuła | Częstochowa | 1st League: Leszno - Częstochowa |
| 70.0 | 28.08.1977 | Template:Flagicon Zenon Plech | Gdańsk | 1st League: Leszno - Gdańsk |
| 70.0 | 21.05.1978 | Template:Flagicon Bernard Jąder | Leszno | 1st League: Leszno - Rybnik |
| 70.0 | 21.05.1978 | Template:Flagicon Mariusz Okoniewski | Leszno | 1st League: Leszno - Rybnik |
| 69.2 | 04.06.1978 | Template:Flagicon Malcolm Simmons | - | International Individual Meeting |
| 69.0 | 04.06.1978 | Template:Flagicon Bernard Jąder | Leszno | International Individual Meeting |
| 68.0 | 28.06.1978 | Template:Flagicon Bernard Jąder | Leszno | Individual Meeting |
| 347 m (1979–1987) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Date | Rider | Club | Meeting |
| 70.1 | 12.04.1979 | Template:Flagicon Eugeniusz Miastkowski | Toruń | Individual Polish Championship Quarter-Final |
| 68.6 | 22.04.1979 | Template:Flagicon Piotr Pyszny | Rybnik | 1st League: Leszno - Rybnik |
| 68.1 | 29.04.1979 | Template:Flagicon Mariusz Okoniewski | Leszno | 1st League: Leszno - Wrocław |
| 68.1 | 29.04.1979 | Template:Flagicon Mariusz Okoniewski | Leszno | 1st League: Leszno - Wrocław |
| 67.4 | 19.08.1979 | Template:Flagicon Ryszard Buśkiewicz | Leszno | 1st League: Leszno - Gdańsk |
| 67.4 | 22.07.1980 | Template:Flagicon Bogusław Nowak | Gorzów | Individual Polish Championship Final |
| 66.2 | 22.07.1980 | Template:Flagicon Edward Jancarz | Gorzów | Individual Polish Championship Final |
| 65.0 | 14.06.1981 | Template:Flagicon Edward Jancarz | Gorzów | Individual World Championship Continental Semi-Final |
| 342 m (since 1987) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Date | Rider | Club | Meeting |
| 65.8 | 08.04.1987 | Template:Flagicon Zenon Kasprzak | Leszno | Poland - Sweden |
| 65.8 | 14.04.1987 | Template:Flagicon Zenon Kasprzak | Leszno | 1st League: Leszno - Gorzów Wlkp. |
| 63.51 | 13.06.1987 | Template:Flagicon Zoltan Adorjan | - | Individual World Championship Continental Semi-Final |
| 63.35 | 06.08.1988 | Template:Flagicon Zenon Kasprzak | Leszno | Individual World Championship Continental Final |
| 63.0 | 25.09.1988 | Template:Flagicon Zenon Kasprzak | Leszno | Individual Polish Championship Final |
| 62.6 | 05.08.1989 | Template:Flagicon Erik Gundersen | - | World Pairs Championship Final |
| 62.6 | 1993 | Template:Flagicon Roman Jankowski | Leszno | FSO Individual Meeting |
| 62.6 | 21.05.1994 | Template:Flagicon Roman Jankowski | Leszno | 2nd League: Leszno - Lublin |
| 62.4 | 21.05.1994 | Template:Flagicon Roman Jankowski | Leszno | 2nd League: Leszno - Lublin |
| 62.2 | 15.07.1995 | Template:Flagicon Tomasz Gollob | Bydgoszcz | XLV Alfred Smoczyk Memorial |
| 61.6 | 16.06.1996 | Template:Flagicon Roman Jankowski | Leszno | 2nd League: Leszno - Łódź |
| 60.5 | 16.06.1996 | Template:Flagicon Leigh Adams | Leszno | 2nd League: Leszno - Łódź |
| 60.2 | 28.05.2000 | Template:Flagicon Leigh Adams | Leszno | Ekstraliga: Leszno - Gdańsk |
| 60.2 | 21.04.2002 | Template:Flagicon Rafał Okoniewski | Leszno | Ekstraliga: Leszno - Wrocław |
| 60.0 | 21.04.2002 | Template:Flagicon Krzysztof Kasprzak | Leszno | Ekstraliga: Leszno - Wrocław |
| 59.0 | 03.05.2002 | Template:Flagicon Leigh Adams | Leszno | Ekstraliga: Leszno - Częstochowa |
| 58.4 | 03.05.2007 | Template:Flagicon Krzysztof Kasprzak | Leszno | Ekstraliga: Leszno - Zielona Góra |
| 58.1 | 09.05.2010 | Template:Flagicon Janusz Kołodziej | Leszno | ? |
See also
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