Born | 10 January 1945 Wełecz, Poland |
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Nationality | Polish |
Career history | |
Poland | |
1963-1974 | Wrocław |
Great Britain | |
1978 | Swindon Robins |
Sweden | |
1979-1981 | Kaparna |
Individual honours | |
1967, 1968 | Speedway World Championship finalist |
Team honours | |
1980 | Allsvenskan Div 2 (South) Champion |
Jerzy Trzeszkowski (born 10 January 1945) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider from Poland. [1] [2] He earned 24 international caps for the Poland national speedway team. [3]
Trzeszkowski reached the final of the Speedway World Championship on two occasions in the 1967 Individual Speedway World Championship and the 1968 Individual Speedway World Championship. [4]
He rode in the top tier of British Speedway, riding for Swindon Robins, [5] with fellow Pole Leonard Raba, [6] during the 1978 British League season. [7] [8]
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