Adam Skórnicki

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Adam Skórnicki
Elit Vetlanda
2007Rospiggarna
2009Vargarna
Denmark
2001Holsted
2008Esbjerg
Individual honours
1999Latvian Champion
Polish Champion
Team honours
Craven Shield
1996, 1997Polish Junior Pairs Champion

Adam Skórnicki (born 22 October 1976 in Wolsztyn, Poland) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Poland.[1][2]

Career

Skornicki riding for Belle Vue
Skornicki in Poznań colours

Skórnicki started racing in Poland for

2002
. His averaged improved from 5.79 in 2000 to 8.14 in 2005.

He was loaned out to

Craven Shield Final.[4] Skórnicki signed for Poole on loan in 2008 and went on to win the 2008 Elite League championship with the club.[5]

In August 2008, Skórnicki became the Individual Polish Champion for the first time with a 15-point maximum score.[6]

For the 2009 season, Skórnicki returned to his parent club the Wolverhampton Wolves in the United Kingdom. He also changed clubs in Poland and Sweden, to Gdańsk (in the Ekstraliga) and Vargarna respectively.[2] For Wolves he became a regular points scorer and was intergal during the 2009 Elite League speedway season, when Wolves won the league title, giving Skórnicki his second consecutive title.[7]

In 2010, he remained with Wolves and returned to Poznań from Gdańsk. It was his 17th consecutive season in the Polish leagues.[2] He rode for various British and Polish clubs from 2012 to 2014 before retiring.

In June 2014, he was appointed as a manager of Unia Leszno[8]

In 2017, he made a brief return, riding a handful of matches for his first British club Wolves and Kolejarz Rawicz in Poland.

References

  1. ISBN 0-9552376-1-0
  2. ^ a b c d "Adam Skórnicki". Polish Speedway Database. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  3. ^ "2008 Rider index" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  4. ^ "Skornicki: I always wanted Poole ride". Bournemouth Daily Echo. 2007. Retrieved 9 April 2008.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ "Poole Speedway: Skornicki joins the Pirates ship". WorldSpeedway.com. 2007. Retrieved 9 April 2008.
  6. ^ "Polish Individual Speedway Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  7. ^ "CATEGORY: 2009 SEASON (4)". Wolverhampton Speedway. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Adam Skórnicki dogadany w Lesznie!". 21 November 2014.
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