| Born | February 15, 1989 Daugavpils, Latvia |
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| Nationality |  |
| Current club information | |
| Polish league | Lokomotiv Daugavpils (1st League) |
| Career history | |
| 2005- | Daugavpils (POL) |
Vjačeslavs Giruckis (born 15 February 1989) [1] is a Latvian motorcycle speedway rider who rides for Lokomotiv Daugavpils.
1989 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.
Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. Since its independence, Latvia has been referred to as one of the Baltic states. It is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, and Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia has 1,957,200 inhabitants and a territory of 64,589 km2 (24,938 sq mi). The country has a temperate seasonal climate.
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).
