Marian Kaiser
Polish speedway rider
Born | 14 January 1933 Kołodziejewo, Poland |
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Died | 10 April 1991 (aged 58) Regensburg, Switzerland |
Nationality | Polish |
Career history | |
Poland | |
1950-1952 | Gorzów |
1953 | Świętochłowice |
1953-1954 | Wrocław |
1955-1959 | Warszawa |
1960-1966 | Gdańsk |
Great Britain | |
1959 | Leicester Hunters |
Individual honours | |
1960, 1966 | Speedway World Championship finalist |
1957 | Polish Championship |
1960 | European Champion |
1962 | Continental Champion |
1962 | Poland Golden Helmet Winner |
Team honours | |
1961 | World Team Cup Winner |
Marian Kaiser (14 January 1933 – 10 April 1991) was an international motorcycle speedway rider from Poland.[1] He earned 31 international caps for the Poland national speedway team.[2]
Speedway career
Kaiser reached the final of the Speedway World Championship on two occasions, in the 1960 Individual Speedway World Championship and the 1966 Individual Speedway World Championship.[3]
He was the Polish champion in 1957 after he won gold at the Polish Individual Speedway Championship.[4]
Coventry Bees promoter Charles Ochiltree unsuccessfully attempted to sign Kaiser out of retirement in 1968.[5]
World final appearances
Individual World Championship
World Team Cup
- 1960 -
Göteborg, Ullevi (with Konstanty Pociejkewicz / Mieczysław Połukard / Jan Malinowski) - 4th - 7pts (2)
- 1961 -
Wrocław, Olympic Stadium (with Mieczysław Połukard / Henryk Żyto / Florian Kapała / Stanisław Tkocz) - Winner - 32pts (10)
- 1962 -
Slaný (with Mieczysław Połukard / Florian Kapała / Joachim Maj / Paweł Waloszek) - 3rd - 20pts (9)
- 1963 -
Vienna, Stadion Wien (with Andrzej Pogorzelski / Henryk Żyto / Joachim Maj / Stanisław Tkocz) - 4th - 7pts (1)
- 1964 -
Abensberg, Abensberg Stadion (with Andrzej Wyglenda / Andrzej Pogorzelski / Zbigniew Podlecki / Marian Rose) - 4th - 16pts (0)
References
- ^ "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
- ^ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ "World Speedway finals" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
- ^ Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 101. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
- ^ "Kaiser out - Kasper in". Sunday Mirror. 19 May 1968. Retrieved 26 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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