Włodzimierz Szwendrowski

Polish speedway rider

Włodzimierz Szwendrowski
Career history
Born	5 June 1931 (1931-06-05) Lublin, Poland
Died	9 March 2013(2013-03-09) (aged 81)
Nationality	Polish
1951	Ogniwo Bytom
1952–1954	Ogniwo Łódź
1955	Sparta Łódź
1956, 1961–1962	Tramwajarz Łodź

Individual honours
1951, 1955	Polish Champion

Włodzimierz Szwendrowski (1931–2013) was an international speedway rider from Poland.^[1]^[2]

Speedway career

Szwendrowski was the champion of Poland on two occasions, winning the Polish Individual Speedway Championship in 1951 and 1955.^[3]^[4]

Although he never rode in Britain during his career, he toured the United Kingdom with the Polish team in 1956, which cost £2,000 to organise and was paid by the Polish Motor Club and British authorities.^[5] He was also named in the Wimbledon Dons team during the 1957 season. He was a skiing engineering student in Poland at the time.^[6]

In 1957, his career was brought to a sudden halt after he caused a traffic accident in which a pedestrian was killed. he received a two year prison sentence. He did return to racing riding for Tramwajarz Łodź from 1961 to 1962.^[1]

After retiring from racing he went into coaching, which included a spell in charge of the Motor Lublin team.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "He was a big star. A tragic accident and prison stopped his career". Przegląd Sportowy Onet. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
^ "Norway v Poland". International Speedway. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
^ Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 101. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
^ "Polish Individual Speedway Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
^ "Polish speedway team visits England". Halifax Evening Courier. 4 May 1956. Retrieved 10 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Speedway starts on Good Friday". Streatham News. 19 April 1957. Retrieved 10 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.