Maksym Drabik

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Maksym Drabik
Born (1998-02-22) 22 February 1998 (age 25)
Częstochowa, Poland
NationalityPolish
Career history
Poland
2017–2020 Wrocław
2022 Lublin
2023–2024 Czestochowa
Sweden
2017–2019, 2022 Lejonen
2023–2024 Smederna
Individual honours
2017, 2019 World Under-21 Champion

Maksym Drabik (born 22 February 1998) is an international speedway rider from Poland. [1]

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Speedway career

Drabik won the gold medal at the World Under-21 Championship in the 2017 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship [2] [3] and the 2019 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship. [4]

In 2021, he was banned for breaking anti-doping rules (vitamin injection) by the Polish Doping Agency, the ban was back dated from 30 October 2020 (when he was initially suspended) to the 30 October 2021. [5] In 2022, he helped Lublin win the 2022 Ekstraliga. [6]

World final appearances

World Under-21 Championship

Family

His father Sławomir Drabik was also a Polish international speedway rider. [7]

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References

  1. "MAKSYM DRABIK #133". SpeedwayU21. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  2. "2017 FIM Speedway Under 21 World Championship Calendar". FIM. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  3. "World Under 21 Championship". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  4. "Rider Statistics - 2019". GB Speedway. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  5. "MAKSYM DRABIK suspended one year for doping". po-bandzie. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  6. "2022 results". PGE Ekstraliga. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  7. "MAKSYM-UM POTENTIAL". FIM. Retrieved 16 July 2021.