Stanisław Tkocz

Stanisław Tkocz

Born	6 November 1936 Rybnik, Poland
Died	19 May 2016 (aged 79)
Nationality	Polish
Career history
1955–1971	Górnik/ROW Rybnik
1972	Kolejarz Opole
Individual honours
1961, 1966	Speedway World Championship finalist
1958, 1965	Polish champion
1963	Continental Champion
1965	Poland Golden Helmet Winner
Team honours
1961, 1969	World Team Cup Winner
1956, 1957, 1958 1962, 1963, 1964 1965, 1966, 1967 1968, 1970	Polish League Champion

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.