Florian_Kapała

Florian Kapała

Florian Kapała

Polish motorcycle speedway rider

Florian Kapała (1929 - 2007) was an international speedway rider from Poland.[1]

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Speedway career

Kapała reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1961 Individual Speedway World Championship.[2]

He was a four times Polish champion after he won gold at the Polish Individual Speedway Championship in 1953, 1956, 1961 and 1962.[3]

Kapała won the World Team Cup with Poland in 1961.

In 2008 the year after his death, the Kolejarz Rawicz renamed their stadium to the Florian Kapała Stadium, in honour of him.[4]

World final appearances

Individual World Championship

World Team Cup

References

  1. [1]
    "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  2. [2]
    "World Speedway finals" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  3. [3]
    Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 101. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
  4. [4]
    "Metalika Recycling Kolejarz Rawicz". Sportowe Katy. Retrieved 16 November 2023.


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