Paweł Waloszek (28 April 1938 – 7 September 2018) was a Polish international motorcycle speedway rider who was second in 1970 Individual Speedway World Championship. He earned 74 caps for the Poland national speedway team and won the 1965 Speedway World Team Cup with them.

Career

Waloszek won the Individual Speedway European Championship twice, in 1968 and 1972. He reached five Individual World Championship finals finishing runner-up at the 1970 Individual Speedway World Championship. He also reached the final of the Polish Individual Speedway Championship eighteen times. He rode the majority of his career in his native Poland, representing Stal Świętochłowice in a career that lasted 31 years, from 1955 to 1985. He won the bronze medal of the Team Speedway Polish Championship with Śląsk (1972). Waloszek only rode one season in Great Britain, when he signed for the Leicester Hunters for the 1961 Speedway National League season. He toured the United Kingdom with the Polish national team in 1966 and 1967.

Honour

In 2014, the Skalka Stadium was renamed the Paweł Waloszek Stadium in his honour.

Results

World Championships

World Final Appearances

Individual World Championship

World Team Cup

Polish competitions