Tomasz Gollob

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Personal Information
Tomasz Gollob

Nationality	Poland
Date of birth	April 11, 1971 (1971-04-11) (age 37)
Place of birth	Bydgoszcz, Poland
Website	www.gollobracing.com
Current Club Information
Polish League	Stal Gorzów Wlkp.
Swedish League	Västervik Speedway
Career History
Polonia Bydgoszcz (POL) Wybrzeże Gdańsk (POL) Ipswich Witches (GBR) Västervik (SWE) Unia Tarnów (POL) Gorzów Wlkp. (POL)		1988, 1990-2003 1989 1998-2000 2001- 2004-2007 2008
Individual Honours
Polish Champion Polish Under 21 Champion Polish Golden Helmet Winner Polish Silver Helmet Winner Polish Grand Prix Champion Swedish Grand Prix Champion Czech Grand Prix Champion German Grand Prix Champion	1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2002 1990, 1991, 1992 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002 1990, 2002 1995, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 1997 1999 2001
Team Honours
World Team Cup Winner World Cup Winner European Cup Champions' Winner Polish Team Champion Polish Pairs Champion Elite League Champion Elite League KO Cup Winner Craven Shield Winner Swedish Elitserien Champion	1996 2005, 2007 2001 1992, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 1998 1998 1998 2005, 2006

Tomasz Robert Gollob (born April 11, 1971 in Bydgoszcz, Poland)^[1] is a Polish motorcycle speedway who has appeared in every Speedway Grand Prix series since its inaugural season in 1995. Brother Jacek also rides.

1 Career summary
2 World Final Appearances
3 Speedway Grand Prix results
4 References

[edit] Career summary

Place of 2007 plane crash.

Gollob spent almost all of his career with hometown club Bydgoszcz until he moved to Unia Tarnów in 2004. He has won the Polish Individual Championship six times and Polish Pairs Champion ten times. He has also won the Polish Grand Prix eight times in thirteen years.

Gollob was also a member of the Poland speedway team that won the World Team Cup in 1996 and the World Cup in 2005 and 2007.

In 2007 Gollob survived a plane crash with fellow rider Rune Holta. The plane, flown by his father Władysław, crashed on the way to a meeting at Zielona Gora. Gollob escaped with cuts and bruises after pulling his father from the wreckage.^[2]

[edit] World Final Appearances

1993 - GER Pocking - 7th - 8pts
1994 - DEN Vojens - 17th - 0pts^[3]

[edit] Speedway Grand Prix results

Year	Position	Points	Best Finish	Notes
1995	9th	73	Winner	Won the first ever SGP, in Poland
1996	12th	43	3rd	Competed in only 3 rounds as a permanent reserve
1997	3rd	92	Winner	Won Swedish GP
1998	3rd	97	Winner	Won in Poland
1999	2nd	98	Winner (twice)	Won in Czech Rep and Poland, but made no other finals
2000	7th	64	5th (twice)
2001	3rd	89	Winner	Winner of the German GP held in Berlin
2002	7th	117	Winner	1st of 4 consecutive Polish GP wins
2003	6th	111	Winner	Won Polish Grand Prix
2004	6th	113	Winner	Won Polish Grand Prix
2005	7th	83	Winner	Won Polish Grand Prix
2006	8th	94	3rd (three times)	Third in Slovenia, Sweden and Poland
2007	4th	108	Winner	Second at Scandanavian GP, third in Latvia, winner in Poland

2007 Speedway Grand Prix - 4 place

	Grand Prix	Pos.	Pts.	Heats	Draw No
Final Championship standings:		4	108	Riding No (8)
1 /11	Italian SGP	6	10	(1,3,3,0,2) +1	3
2 /11	European SGP	15	3	(1,1,E,1,0)	11
3 /11	Swedish SGP	7	9	(1,1,1,2,3)	12
4 /11	Danish SGP	4	11	(1,0,3,2,3) +2 +0	8
5 /11	British SGP	15	3	(1,0,0,0,2)	6
6 /11	Czech Rep. SGP	16	1	(0,0,0,1,0)	14
7 /11	Scandinavian SGP	2	19	(3,3,2,3,2) +2 +4	3
8 /11	Latvian SGP	3	14	(3,1,3,2,1) +2 +2	7
9 /11	Polish SGP	1	21	(2,3,2,2,3) +3 +6	10
10 /11	Slovenian SGP	5	10	(2,2,2,1,2) +1	11
11 /11	German SGP	11	7	(1,0,3,2,1)	4

2008 Speedway Grand Prix

	Grand Prix	Pos.	Pts.	Heats	Draw No
Final Championship standings:				Riding No (4)
1 /11	Slovenian SGP	1	19	(0,2,2,3,3) +3 +6	9
2 /11	European SGP	4	12	(3,3,3,1,1)+1	16
3 /11	Swedish SGP	5	8	(0,2,3,F/ex,3)+0	6
4 /11	Danish SGP
5 /11	British SGP
6 /11	Czech Rep. SGP
7 /11	Scandinavian SGP
8 /11	Latvian SGP
9 /11	Polish SGP
10 /11	Italian SGP
11 /11	German SGP

	permanent speedway rider
	wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve
	rider notclassify (track reserve who not started)

[edit] References

^ Oakes, P.(2006). Speedway Star Almanac. ISBN 0-9552376-1-0
^ Gollob survives plane crash drama. Evening Star (2007-06-11). Retrieved on 2007-10-24.
^ Bamford, R. & Shailes, G. (2002). A History of the World Speedway Championship. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0-7524-2402-5

2008 Speedway Grand Prix riders
(1) N. Pedersen	(2) Adams	(3) Crump	(4) Gollob	(5) Andersen
(6) Hancock	(7) Holta	(8) Nicholls	(9) Harris	(10) Jonsson
(11) B. Pedersen	(12) Iversen	(13) L. Dryml	(14) K. Kasprzak	(15) Lindgren

v • d • e 2008 Polish national speedway team

Senior Team: Baliński I • Buczkowski • Chrzanowski • Dobrucki • T.Gollob • Hampel • Holta • Jaguś • Jeleniewski • K.Kasprzak • Kołodziej • Miedziński • Protasiewicz • Walasek • Ząbik Junior Team (U-21): A.Gomólski • Janowski • Jędrzejewski • Kajoch • Kajzer • Lampart • Łopaczewski • Mitko • Miturski • Mroczka • Piaszczyński • Pytel • Ma.Szczepaniak • Szewczykowski • Zengota