National Team
The Polish National team are the current World Champions (seven titles). Poland has produced two Individual World Champion - Jerzy Szczakiel who won in 1973 and Tomasz Gollob who won in 2010. Polish junior riders are among the best in the world. The Polish National U-21 team won the Under 21 World Championship since 2005 in every years (lately in 2007). Besides, since 2000 Polish juniors won medals of Individual U-21 World Championship. Polish riders have been World Champions seven times at Under 21 level (lately Karol Ząbik in 2006).
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