Stanisław Tkocz

Polish speedway rider

Stanisław Tkocz (1936–2016) was an international speedway rider from Poland.^[1]

Speedway career

Tkocz reached the final of the Speedway World Championship on two occasions in the 1961 Individual Speedway World Championship and the 1966 Individual Speedway World Championship.^[2]

He was a two times Polish champion after he won gold at the Polish Individual Speedway Championship in 1958 and 1965.^[3] Tkocz reached the 1958 European Final as part of the 1958 Individual Speedway World Championship.^[4]

Tkocz was part of the Górnik/ROW Rybnik team that dominated the Team Speedway Polish Championship during the 1960s and were rewarded with United Kingdom tours in 1965^[5] and 1966.^[6]

World final appearances

Individual World Championship

• 1961 – Malmö, Malmö Stadion – 15th – 3pts
• 1966 – Gothenburg, Ullevi – 9th – 7pts

World Team Cup

• 1961 – Wrocław, Olympic Stadium (with Marian Kaiser / Henryk Żyto / Mieczysław Połukard / Florian Kapała) – Winner – 32pts (4)
• 1963 – Vienna, Stadion Wien (with Henryk Żyto / Marian Kaiser / Joachim Maj / Andrzej Pogorzelski) – 4th – 7pts (1)
• 1969 – Rybnik, Rybnik Municipal Stadium (with Edward Jancarz / Andrzej Wyglenda / Henryk Glücklich / Andrzej Pogorzelski) – Winner – 31pts (4)

References

1. "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL – RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
2. "World Speedway finals" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
3. Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 101. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
4. "Challenge". Sunday Mirror. 13 July 1958. Retrieved 11 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
5. "Speedway". Halifax Evening Courier. 16 July 1965. Retrieved 11 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
6. "European finalists on city circuit". Star Green 'un. 30 July 1966. Retrieved 11 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.