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Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines which use only one gear and have no brakes; racing takes place on a flat oval track usually consisting of dirt, loosely packed shale, or crushed rock. Competitors use this surface to slide their machines sideways, powersliding or broadsiding into the bends. On the straight sections of the track the motorcycles reach speeds of up to 70 miles per hour (110 km/h).
The Speedway World Cup was an annual speedway event held each year in different countries. The first edition of the competition in the current format was held in 2001 and replaced the old World Team Cup competition which was amalgamated with the World Pairs Championship. The last edition was in 2017. Since 2018, the World Cup has been replaced by the new Speedway of Nations, which effectively brings back the pairs format.
Gregory Alan "Greg" Hancock is an American professional motorcycle speedway rider.
William Gordon "Billy" Hamill is an American international motorcycle speedway rider. He is a former Speedway World Champion, winning the title in 1996.
Christopher Robert "Chris" Holder is an Australian speedway rider currently riding for Lejonen in the Swedish Elitserien and for Unibax Toruń in the Polish Speedway Ekstraliga. He became the Australian Individual Speedway Champion in 2008 and followed up with wins in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014 as well as winning the Australian Under-21 Championship in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. He finished as runner-up in the Under-21 World Championship in 2007 and 2008. He is 2012 World Speedway Champion. His brother, James, also rode in the UK with the Plymouth Devils in the Premier League and younger brother Jack Holder also rides for the Somerset Rebels in the SGB Premiership.
Tai Woffinden is a British speedway rider. In 2013 he became World Speedway Champion and currently rides for the WTS Wrocław in the Polish Speedway Ekstraliga and Indianerna Kumla in the Swedish Elitserien. Until the end of 2014 he also rode for the Wolverhampton Wolves in the British Elite League, but announced in late 2014 that he would not be riding in Britain during 2015 in his quest to regain his World Championship.
Edward (Eddie) David Kennett is a motorcycle speedway rider. He was the British Under-21 Champion in 2005 and has appeared in two Speedway Grand Prix as a wild card.
Janusz Kołodziej is a Polish speedway rider who has ridden for the Polish national team.
Emil Damirovich Sayfutdinov is a Russian motorcycle speedway rider and member of the Russian national teams. He won the 2007 and 2008 Under-21 World Championship. He is also a two-time winner of the European Championships in 2014, 2015. He has won Speedway of Nations with Russia two-times in 2018, 2019. He is a permanent rider of the 2019 Speedway Grand Prix. He has won seven Grand Prix.
Damian Baliński is an international motorcycle speedway rider and a current member of Poland national team. He has ridden since 1994 with Unia Leszno.
The Speedway World Team Cup was an annual speedway event held each year in different countries. The competition started in 1960 and was replaced with the Speedway World Cup in 2001.
Robert Ksiezak is an Australian speedway rider.
Adrian Gomólski is an international speedway rider, representing the Poland national U-21 team. He started his speedway career in 2003. His father Jacek was also a speedway rider.
Josef Franc is an international motorcycle racer and competes in Grasstrack, Longtrack and Speedway
Jesper Bruun Monberg is a Danish speedway rider who has won the 2005 Individual European Championship, 1997 Under-21 Junior World Championship and 1997 Team World Championship titles. Previously known as Jesper B. Jensen, in March 2008 he changed his last name to that of his wife Rikke Monberg.
Maciej Janowski is a Polish speedway rider who is a member of Poland U-21 and U-19 national teams. He is current Team U-21 World Champion and Team U-19 European Champion.
Rene Lehtinen is a Finnish motorcycle speedway rider who was a member of Finland team at 2007 Speedway World Cup.
Denis Štojs is a Slovenian motorcycle speedway rider who was a member of Slovenia team at 2002 and 2003 Speedway World Cup. He started in Speedway Grand Prix as a wild card.
Sławomir Musielak is a Polish motorcycle speedway rider who is a member of the Polish junior national team. Musielak finished 2nd in the 2009 Individual Speedway Junior Polish Championship and was third in the 2009 Silver Helmet Final.
Max Dilger is a German speedway rider who rode for Kolejarz Opole in the 2010 Polish Speedway Second League.
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