Maksym Drabik

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Maksym Drabik
Born (1998-02-22) 22 February 1998 (age 27)
Częstochowa, Poland
NationalityPolish
Career history
Poland
2017–2020 Wrocław
2022 Lublin
2023–2024 Czestochowa
2025 Rybnik
Sweden
2017–2019, 2022 Lejonen
2023–2025 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] [6] In 2022, he helped Lublin win the 2022 Ekstraliga. [7]

World final appearances

World Under-21 Championship

Family

His father Sławomir Drabik was also a Polish international speedway rider. [8]

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. ↑ "The speedway star is suspended for a year after the injections". Aftonbladet. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  6. ↑ "MAKSYM DRABIK suspended one year for doping". po-bandzie. 2 February 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  7. ↑ "2022 results". PGE Ekstraliga. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
  8. ↑ "MAKSYM-UM POTENTIAL". FIM. Retrieved 16 July 2021.