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POLAND
SZYMANSKI TOPS POLISH AVERAGES posted 1 September 2013
The following riders averages are taken after seven rounds of the Extra Polish League with three rounds remaining.
1. M. Szymanski (Szawer Leszno) 3.67 2. M. Ganczarek (Szawer Leszno) 3.60 3. P. Binkowski (TSZ Torun) 3.50 4. R. Dulinski (TSZ Torun) 3.48 5. K. Krajewski (TSZ Torun) 3.41 6. R. Bandosz (Lwy Czestochowa) 3.40 7. A. Szymanski (Orzel Gniezno) 3.14 8. B. Grabowski (Wiraz Ostrow) 3.08 9. S. Kowalczyk (Wiraz Ostrow) 2.97 10. M. Paradzinski (TSZ Torun) 2.96
The best British rider is Steve Harris who has an average of 3.36 but as he has only raced 14 heats, he is not officially classified.
With the circuit and surrounds in reasonable condition, Poprawski has enlisted the help of former club coach Henri Wlodarczyk to launch a major recruitment campaign. Poprawski has recently been successful in his application as a PE teacher at the towns junior school which in turn could aid the project.
There were comfortable home wins for Leszno, Torun and Ostrow in round seven of the Polish League as all three victors collected additional bonus points as a result of their margins of victory.
While the top two positions in the table remained unchanged, Ostrow jump above Czestochowa into fourth place just a point behind Swietochlowice who saw their silver medal aspirations severely dented. Poole's Wil Bristowe scored six points on his debut for Gniezno who were without all their regular big names for their visit to table toppers Torun. Pawel Cegielski and Rafal Dulinski stepped aside for the hosts but they still had plenty to spare.
Pawel Idziorek collected the lot for Ostrow, reeling off five straight wins against Swietochlowice before preparing to return to the UK. Sheffield will be hoping he can pull off a similar feat in next Sunday's big top of the table clash at Poole. Artur Poprawski made a rare appearance for the home side and restricted himself to three starts while Poole stablemate Steve Harris provided the only effective backup for Kamil Belica in the visiting attack.
Polish League racing takes its traditional summer break now until the remaining five rounds resume on 8th September. With recent temperatures above 30 degrees, its probably just as well.
Leszno 96 Czestochowa 60 Tomasz Wlodarczyk 7, Sebastian Paruzel 3, Pawel Szychalski 12, Pawel Kowalczyk 6, Jakub Jakubiak 12, Marcin Jakubiak 10, Damian Notonski 8, Mateusz Stanik 2 Torun 93
Ostrow 91 A. Poprawski 8, P. Kasperczak 9, S. Kowaalczyk 15, P. Idziorek 20, M. Kolata 11, B. Grabowski 17, K. Tyczynski 8, P. Kupczyk 3 Swietochowice 66 P. Pluczynski 5, K. Belica 17, M. Pronobis 8, R. Pigon 5, S. Harris 13, D. Zajac 9, D. Bas 5, K. Bielacze 4 Polish League
Torun took a step closer to the Polish League title, not so much as a result of their expected comfortable home win against Ostrow but following events in the South of the country where Swietochlowice emerged with the points after a close fought affair with 2012 champions Leszno.
Despite the absence of Steve Harris who was on duty for Poole at Hull, Swietochlowice edged home in the closing heats having lead 59-58 after 12 heats. Kamil Bielica held off the challenge of Matiej Ganczarek in heat 13 to put the hosts three points up and when Jamroszyzck picked up an exclusion in heat 14 followed by another for fellow Leszno rider Michal Sassak in the penultimate heat, it was game over for the visitors despite a race win for their big Szymanski/Ganczarek pairing in the final race of the day.
Elsewhere, Poole bound Arek Szymanski carried the fight almost single-handedly for Gniezno at Czestochowa where he dropped just one point in six starts. Robert Bandosz continues his good run of form despite his stringent UK ban while Radek Hanke made his first 2013 appearance for the home side with a 12 point contribution.
Sheffield team mate Pawel Idziorek knocked in a similar score for Ostrow against Torun where the home side were at full strength to avenge their away defeat. Przemyslaw Binkowski had a better day against these opponents with five straight wins - in marked contrast to the 9 he managed in the away match!
Torun 91 Przemyslaw Binkowski 20, Rafal Ignacak 14, Rafal Dulinski 13, Lukasz Marchlewski 10, Marcin Paradzinski 9, Pawel Cegielski 8, Karol Krajewski 8, Sebastian Wodecki 3 Ostrow 66 Szymon Kowalczyk 16, Bartosz Grabowski 14, Pawel Idziorek 12, Piotr Kasperczak 10, Kamil Tuczinski 8, Kupczyk 4, R.Reszelewski 2
Czestochowa 88 Robert Bandosz 17, Pawel Szychalski 15, Thomas Wlodarczyk 12, Radek Hanke 12, Damien Notonski 10, Sebastian Paruzel 7, Jakub Jakubiak 6, Pawel Kowalczyk 5, Gniezno 70 Arek Szymanski 20, Borys Kolodziejski 14, Dawid Zachmyc 13, Eric Misior 10, Milosz Borucki 6, Lukasz Jankowski 3, Gracjan Wozniak 2, Szymon Brzezniak 2
Swietochlowice 80 Leszno 75 Piotr Jamroszczyk 12, Mateusz Ludwiczak 6, Marcin Szymanski 16, Kamil Naskrêt 6, Maciej Ganczarek 16, Arkadiusz Zajac 7, Kamil Antoniewicz 3, Michal Sassek 9
LESZNO RETAIN PAIRS TITLE posted 9 June 2013
This is always regarded as a high profile event in Poland, reflected in the quality of the field which lined up to compete with all the big names in action and the closeness of the scoreline from top to bottom.
Leszno 30 Marcin Szymanski 14, Maciej Ganczarek 12. Patryk Kriger 4 Marcin Paradzinski 13, Przemyslaw Binkowski 9, Pawe³ Cegielski 7 Arkadiusz Szymanski 11, Pawel Idziorek 11, Adam Bozejewicz 4 Szymon Kowalczyk 13, Bartosz Grabowski 12, Piotr Kasperczyk ns Kamil Bielica 10, Kamil Bielaczek 5, Marek Pronobis 4
The big result from Sunday's round five matches from the Polish League was a first defeat of the season for top of the table Torun at the hands of Ostrow which means that the title race is again wide open with Leszno tasting victory at the expense of Swietochlowice by a comfortable margin.
Torun soon found themselves trailing by 11 points and although they got their act together and pulled the deficit back to three points at one stage, Ostrow used their home track advantage to good effect to keep their noses in front and record their best result of the season. Torun may have been disappointed to lose this one but their victory at Leszno on the opening day of the season may still be the deciding factor in the title race.
Marcin Szymanski was declared fit after his recent injury and took his place in a full strength Leszno side who may find that will have to complete a double over Sundays opponent's in round six on June 16th if they are to stand a chance of holding on to the title. Some of the support riders for the Leszno "big two" of Szymanski and Ganczarek are starting to show improvement of late but they are probably still short of championship form at present.
Meanwhile at the other end of the table, Gniezno picked up their first points of the season when Czestochowa were the visitors, hoping for their first away win of the year. It was a close contest with Remi Burchardt troubling all the home riders but the hosts had the better balanced side and kept their nerve and used their considerable home track advantage for a well earned two points.
Ostrow 81 P. Kupczyk 7 P. Kasperczak 14 Sz. Kowalczyk 9 P. Idziorek 14 M. Kolata 11 B. Grabowski 16 K. Tuczynski 9 A. Reszelewski 1 P. Binkowski 9 L.Marchlewski 13 A. Bozejewicz 5
Leszno 95 M.Szymanski 15 M.Slezak 9 P.Jamrowszczyk 13 M.Ludwiczak 7, M.Ganczarek 9 A.Zajak 8 M.Sassek 16 P.Kriger 12 D.Tylinski 4 K.Antoniewicz 2 Swietochlowice 61 M.Erbitz 5 T.Krzykowski 6 M.Pronobis 14 K.Bielaczek 8 P.Bas 3 D.Bas 6 D.Pacek 3 M.Jagiello 8 K. Bielica 8.
Zachmyc 8 Ko³odziejski 10 Kokott 5 Czestochowa 76 Paruzel 16 Jakubiak 15 Notonski 8
Round four match outcomes all followed the form book in Poland at the weekend with league leaders Torun sweeping aside the opposition at Gniezno with Arek Szymanski the only home rider to give the visitors any serious problems. Ostrow might have been expected to run Slask a little closer but there were subdued performances from Bartosz Grabowski and Artur Poprawski on a track which is notoriously difficult for visiting riders.
The match-up between Czestochowa and Leszno was the most evenly balanced of the day largely due to to the absence of Marcin Szymanski who was forced to sit this one out due to a training injury. Just a point separated the sides after 14 heats but the visitors finished strongly with Matiej Ganczarek rounding it all off nicely for the defending champions in heat 16 with a well executed pass on his old adversary, Robert Bandosz.
Swietochlowice 89 Marek Pronobis 14, Rafal Pigon 17, Kamil Bielica 19, Marcin Erbisz 8, Patryk Bas 4, Dawid Zajac 14, Dawid Bas 7, Patryk Pluczynski 3, Ostrow 71 Kamil Tuczynski 8, Bartosz Grabowski 12, Krzysztof Piekarski 1
Gniezno 67 R.Bandosz 17, M.Jakubiak 15, S.Paruzel 14, T.Wlodarczyk 11, J.Jakubiak 8, P.Rajczyk 7, D.Notonski 4 Leszno 81 M.Ganczarek 17, P.Jamroszczyk 15, M.Slezak 11, P.Kriger 11, A.Zajak 11, M.Ludwiczak 9, M.Sassek 6, K.Naskret 1
Full action from this match can be found on youtube from this link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps0jumpyTco
While top two clubs Torun and Leszno were chalking up big home wins at the expense of Czestochowa and Ostrow, a close result was expected at Gniezno where the contrasting fortunes of two riders with Poole connections proved decisive. Steve Harris topped the scorechart for Swietolowice who picked up a valuable away win to strengthen their hopes of a top two place while Michel Nowak could only muster a disappointing seven points on his first match for the Eagles since his return home.
Gniezno 74 A.Szymanski 18, P.Koz³owski 13, D.Zachmyc 12 E.Misior 9, B.Ko³odziejski 9, M.Nowak 7, M.Borucki 6 S.Harris 16, M.Jagiello 14, D.Zajac 12, M.Pronobis 10, R.Pigon 10, D.Bas 9, K.Bielica 6, K.Bielaczek 4
Torun 94 Czestochowa 65 Szychalski 14, Paruzel 13,Wlodarczyk 13, Jakubiak J 10, Jakubczak M 6, Natonski 4 Rajczyk 4
Leszno 95 Ostrow 63
Scheduled to be ridden on April 7th, the first round of Polish League matches was postponed en bloc because of snow and ridden on May 5th when Torun completed their expected comfortable home win against Swietolowice (91-66) and champions Leszno came away from improving Gniezno with both league points (75-83).
A photo report of the match at Gniezno can be found on this link - http://www.sportgniezno.pl/pnews/id/6506/GKS_Orzel_Gniezno_ulega_Szawer_Leszno_7583_-_Foto_relacja.html
The closest encounter was at Czestochowa where the title aspirations of Ostrow took a nose-dive after a rather ill-tempered affair which saw the home side spring a surprise four point victory with new signing Robert Bandosz contributing nine points. Artur Poprawski made his debut for Ostrow and managed just one race win in his eight point total.
Czestochowa 80 Bartosz Giemsa 15, Sebastian Paruzel 14, Paul Szychalski 12, Tomasz Wlodarczyk 12, Marcin Jakubiak 11, Robert Bandosz 9, Damian Natonski 5 Bartosz Grabowski 17, Szymon Kowalczyk 15, Marcin Ko³ata 15, Piotr Kasperczak 10, Artur Poprawski 8, Kamil Tuczynski 7, Peter Kupczyk 4
On the opening day of the Polish League season, there was a major upset when 2012 runners-up Torun came away from reigning champions Leszno with the league points after a narrow two point victory.
The home side lined up with their big two, Marcin Szymanski and Maciej Ganczarek back in the fold after eleventh hour doubts about their potential inclusion and they played their part with 19 and 17 points respectively. However, their middle order which included Chris Timms and Ben Mould could not match the more solid performance of the visitors who could already have one hand on the league trophy after just 18 races of the new season! It was Toruns first ever victory at Leszno.
Leszno 78 Marcin Szymanski 19, Maciej Ganczarek 17, Ben Mould 14, Sassek 8, Chris Timms 7, Kochanek 5, Slezak 3, Ludwiczak 3, Kamil Antoniewicz 1, Jamroszczyk 1 Torun 80
The other two results went very much to form with wins for Steve Harris's new club, Swietochlowice and dark horses Ostrow.
Ostrow 101 Szymon Kowalczyk 20, Piotr Kasperczak 18, Bartosz Grabowski 17, Marcin Kolata 15, Kamil Tuczynski 13, Piotr Kupczyk 9, Marcin Krajewski 6, Konrad Pietrzak 3, Tomasz Bodyl dnr, Artur Reszelewski dnr Arkadiusz Szymanski 16, Dawid Zachmyc 9, Borys Kolodziejski 8, Eryk Misior 8, Milosz Borucki 6, Lukasz Jankowski 5, Szymon Brzezniak 4, Kacper Grzelak 2
Swietochlowice 93 Kamil Bielica 17, Steve Harris 14, Maciej Jagiello 13, Marek Pronobis 11, Rafa³ Pigon 11, Dawid Zajac 8, Mateusz Pacek 5, Marek Erbisz 5, Dawid Bas 5, Kamil Bielaczek 4 Czestochowa 67 Marcin Jakubiak 15, Sebiastian Paruzel 14, Tomasz Wlodarczyk 11, Pawel Szychalski 8, Pawel Rajczyk 7, Damian Natonski 5, Jakub Jakubiak 4, Bart³omiej Pawlik 2, Michal Chrzastek 1, Mateusz Stanik dnr
Round one Polish League matches due to be ridden on 7th April have all been re-scheduled for May 5th as winter persists across the country with deep snow in many places.
If conditions improve sufficiently, it is hoped to go ahead with the round two matches due for April 21st headlined by the clash between 2012's top two clubs and arch rivals, champions Leszno and runners up Torun. Speculation is suggesting that Marcin Szymanski and Maciej Ganczarek may not be lining up for Leszno this season although the situation is unclear at present.
Back in the warmth of his apartment, Marcin has been busy completing orders for his new Du Vivo junior bikes with five more, including a 16" wheel version, shortly to be shipped over following successful trials of the first two at Poole.
Three clubs have dropped out of the 2013 Polish League leaving just six teams to contest this years competition.
The official PFKS website announced yesterday that Kalety, Zielona Gora and Zoledowo will be missing from the 2012 line-up. Gniezno will re-enter the league after a one year absence while champions Leszno, Torun, Swietochlowice, Czestochowa and Ostrow are back in action.
There were hopes that a combined team drawn from Zoledowo and Bydgoszcz could be agreed but it came to nothing.
It has been suggested that financial issues have helped to arrived at the current situation which is in marked contrast to the 2011 season when 11 clubs entered and were split into two sections. Line-ups for the three regional competitions have yet to be announced.
Maciej Ganczarek (Leszno) 3.68, Marcin Szymañski (Leszno) 3.47, Bartosz Grabowski (Ostrow) 3.46, Marcin Paradzinski (Torun) 3.42, Kamil Antoniewicz (Leszno) 3.40, Lukasz Marchlewski (Torun) 3.36, Damian Wozny (Leszno) 3.33, Rafal Dulinski (Torun) 3.33
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