Jarosław Hampel

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Jarosław Hampel
Born April 17, 1982 (1982-04-17) (age 26)
Łódź, Poland
Occupation Speedway Rider
Website
http://www.hampelracing.com

Jarosław "Jarek" Hampel (born 17 April 1982 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish Speedway rider and a participant of the FIM Speedway Grand Prix in 2007.

He received his speedway license in 1998 with the Polish team Polonia Piła, although he first started racing on a mini-track in Pawłowice, close to the city of Leszno.

In 1999 he won a bronze medal at the Individual U-19 European Championship as well as a bronze medal at the Individual U-21 World Championship in 2000 and a gold medal in 2003.

He has started in the Speedway Grand Prix since 2000, and became a regular starter from 2004. In 2005 he won the Speedway World Cup with Poland, together with fellow Poles Tomasz Gollob, Piotr Protasiewicz, Grzegorz Walasek and Rune Holta; beating Sweden, Denmark and Great Britain in the final held at the Olympic Stadium in Wrocław, Poland.

In terms of his domestic run, Hampel's biggest success are two silver medals at the Individual Polish Championships in 2000 and 2004, as well as three medals at the Junior Individual Polish Championships ( Gold in 2001, Silver in 2002, Bronze in 2000).

He currently rides for three teams: VMS Vetlanda in Sweden Unia Leszno in Poland and Ipswich Witches in England. All of these teams are in the First League in their country.

[edit] Speedway Grand Prix results

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

[edit] SGP Podium

  1. Flag of the Czech Republic Prague 2004 - 2nd place
  2. Flag of EuropeFlag of Poland Wrocław 2004 - 2nd place
  3. Flag of the United Kingdom Cardiff 2005 - 2nd place
  4. Flag of the Czech Republic Prague 2005 - 3rd place
  5. Flag of the United Kingdom Cardiff 2006 - 3rd place
  6. Flag of the Czech Republic Prague 2007 - 2nd place

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2008 Speedway Grand Prix riders
(1) Flag of Denmark N. Pedersen (2) Flag of Australia Adams (3) Flag of Australia Crump (4) Flag of Poland Gollob (5) Flag of Denmark Andersen
(6) Flag of the United States Hancock (7) Flag of Poland Holta (8) Flag of the United Kingdom Nicholls (9) Flag of the United Kingdom Harris (10) Flag of Sweden Jonsson
(11) Flag of Denmark B. Pedersen (12) Flag of Denmark Iversen (13) Flag of the Czech Republic L. Dryml (14) Flag of Poland K. Kasprzak (15) Flag of Sweden Lindgren
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