Jarosław Hampel

Jarosław Hampel
Born April 17, 1982 (1982-04-17) (age 29)
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 and 2010.

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. As well as 2005 he has since won the world cup another three times in 2007, 2009 & 2010 taking his number of world cup gold medals to four.

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 two teams: VMS Vetlanda in Sweden Unia Leszno in Poland.

For his sport achievements, he received:

Bronze Cross of Merit in 2005; 
Golden Cross of Merit in 2007.

Speedway Grand Prix results

2000 Speedway Grand Prix - 27th place
Final Championship standings: 27th 7 Riding No (24)
Grand Prix Pos. Pts. Heats Draw No
6 /6 European SGP 12 7 (0,2,2) (0,2,0) 24
2001 Speedway Grand Prix - 25th place
Final Championship standings: 25th 7 Riding No (24)
Grand Prix Pos. Pts. Heats Draw No
5 /6 Polish SGP 12 7 (1,2,2) (3,1,0) 24
2002 Speedway Grand Prix - 34th place
Final Championship standings: 34th 6 Riding No (23) (24)
Grand Prix Pos. Pts. Heats Draw No
2 /10 Polish SGP 22 2 (0,1) 24
8 /10 European SGP 17 4 (0,3,1) 23
2003 Speedway Grand Prix - 25th place
Final Championship standings: 25th 13 Riding No (23)
Grand Prix Pos. Pts. Heats Draw No
8 /9 Polish SGP 6 13 (3,3) (T,2,2) +1) 23
2004 Speedway Grand Prix - 8th place
Final Championship standings: 8th 81 Riding No (22)
Grand Prix Pos. Pts. Heats Draw No
2005 Speedway Grand Prix - 11th place
Final Championship standings: 11th 67 Riding No (8)
Grand Prix Pos. Pts. Heats Draw No
1 /9 European SGP 6 10 (3,3,2,0,2) +1 4
2 /9 Swedish SGP injured → (19) Kenneth Bjerre 15
3 /9 Slovenian SGP injured → (19) Kenneth Bjerre 2
4 /9 British SGP 2 20 (3,1,3,3,2) +3 +2 1
5 /9 Danish SGP 8 8 (1,3,2,1,1) +1 16
6 /9 Czech Rep. SGP 3 18 (0,3,2,1,3) +3 +1 9
7 /9 Scandinavian SGP 11 5 (0,3,0,2,0) 9
8 /9 Polish SGP 12 6 (1,1,1,1,2) 9
9 /9 Italian SGP injured → (21) Stefan Andersson 3
2006 Speedway Grand Prix - 9th place
Final Championship standings: 9th 91 Riding No (11)
Grand Prix Pos. Pts. Heats Draw No
1 /10 Slovenian SGP 13 4 (2,0,0,1,1) 1
2 /10 European SGP 4 16 (0,3,3,1,2) +3 +0 9
3 /10 Swedish SGP 7 8 (2,3,2,0,1) +1 5
4 /10 British SGP 3 18 (3,3,X,0,2) +2 +1 9
5 /10 Danish SGP 15 2 (0,0,2,0,0) 4
6 /10 Italian SGP 13 4 (0,1,2,1,0) 12
7 /10 Scandinavian SGP 7 10 (0,3,3,2,2) +E 8
8 /10 Czech Rep. SGP 4 16 (0,3,2,0,2) +2 +0 11
9 /10 Latvian SGP 9 7 (1,2,3,1,E) 14
10 /10 Polish SGP 11 6 (0,1,3,2,0) 11
2007 Speedway Grand Prix - 13th place
Final Championship standings: 13th 67 Riding No (9)
Grand Prix Pos. Pts. Heats Draw No
1 /11 Italian SGP 8 8 (3,0,1,2,2) +0 2
2 /11 European SGP 10 6 (3,F,1,F,2) 7
3 /11 Swedish SGP 11 5 (1,0,0,3,1) 2
4 /11 Danish SGP 10 7 (2,0,2,0,3) 5
5 /11 British SGP 8 8 (0,0,3,3,1) +1 11
6 /11 Czech Rep. SGP 2 16 (1,0,3,3,3) +2 +2 3
7 /11 Scandinavian SGP injured → (20) Kai Laukkanen 11
8 /11 Latvian SGP injured → (20) Kai Laukkanen 3
9 /11 Polish SGP 5 11 (3,2,3,0,2) +1 8
10 /11 Slovenian SGP 11 6 (0,1,0,2,3) 3
11 /11 German SGP injured → (20) Kai Laukkanen 13
2008 Speedway Grand Prix
Final Championship standings: Riding No (16)
Grand Prix Pos. Pts. Heats Draw No
2 /11 European SGP 4 16 (2,2,3,3,3) +3 +0 8
  permanent speedway rider
  wild card, track reserve or qualified reserve
  rider not classified (track reserve who did not start)

SGP Podium

  1. Prague 2004 - 2nd place
  2. Wrocław 2004 - 2nd place
  3. Cardiff 2005 - 2nd place
  4. Prague 2005 - 3rd place
  5. Cardiff 2006 - 3rd place
  6. Prague 2007 - 2nd place
  7. Leszno 2010 - 2nd place
  8. Prague 2010 - 3rd place
  9. Copenhagen 2010 - 1st place
  10. Toruń 2010 - 3rd place
  11. Cardiff 2010 - 3rd place

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2011 Speedway Grand Prix riders
1 Gollob 2 Hampel 3 Crump 4 Holta 5 Hancock
6 Harris 7 Bjerre 8 Holder 9 Jonsson 10 Pedersen
11 Lindgren 12 Sayfutdinov 13 Laguta 14 Lindbäck 15 Kołodziej

Senior Team: Baliński · Dobrucki · T.Gollob · A.Gomólski · Hampel · Holta · Jaguś · Jędrzejak · K.Kasprzak · Kołodziej · Miedziński · Skórnicki · Świderski · Ułamek · Walasek
Junior Team (U-21): Celmer · Dudek · Janowski · Kajoch · Lampart · Mitko · Miturski · Mroczka · Musielak · Pawlaszczyk · Pawlicki · Piaszczyński · D.Sperz · Szewczykowski · Zengota

Piotr Swiderski • Jarek Hampel • Daniel King • Leigh Lanham • Tobias Kroner • Dawid Stachyra • Darcy Ward

Manager: Pete Simmons