Bartosz Zmarzlik

Poland’s first four-time world champion, Bartosz Zmarzlik is making a career out of rewriting the FIM Speedway Grand Prix history books. Zmarzlik was schooled at his local club Gorzow, racing with Polish great Tomasz Gollob in his early years. But the pupil is now emerging as the master. Since joining the series full-time for 2016, Bartek has amassed an astonishing seven FIM Speedway World Championship medals in eight years, winning gold in 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2023, silver in 2018 and 2021 and bronze in 2016. He fell just three points short of becoming the first Speedway GP rider to win three straight world titles in 2021. Despite winning five Speedway GP rounds over a breathtaking season, he was pipped to the gold medal by Artem Laguta. But Zmarzlik got back on top of the rostrum in 2022 – sealing the sport’s biggest prize with a round to spare in Malilla, and he made it back-to-back titles again in 2023. He won an incredible five rounds from the nine he raced and sealed gold with an unforgettable win at Torun's Marian Rose Motoarena - a victory that saw him match Aussie legend Jason Crump's all-time series record of 23 wins.