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Salavat Speedway is a motorcycle speedway team and a multi-purpose venue known as the Stroitel Stadium.
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Salavat Speedway is a motorcycle speedway team and a multi-purpose venue known as the Stroitel Stadium.
The Stroitel Stadium is located on Ulitsa Revolyutsionnaya, 3, in the Central Park of Culture and Recreation, which is on the eastern edge of the city and also incorporates the 50th Anniversary of October Stadium. The Stroitel stadium was constructed in 1959 and hosts football and athletics, in addition to speedway. In winter, the football field is flooded and an ice skating rink is in operation. [1]
The stadium has also hosted ice speedway and in particular held the final of the 1968 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship on the 20 and 21 February 1968, [2] won by Gabdrakhman Kadyrov of the Soviet Union. [3] [4]
In 2008, a major renovation of the stadium was carried out and in 2011, the stadium hosted the Russian Archery Championship. Outside of the stadium there is a monument statue in memory of speedway rider Alexander Baskakov, who died following an operation after a crash on the track in 1990.
The speedway team were founded in 1963 and competed in the second edition of the Soviet Union Championship. In 1967, the team won the bronze medal in the championship. [5]
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union the team raced in the Russian Team Speedway Championship, [6] winning the bronze medal again in 1994 and 2004 respectively. [7]
During the 2014 championships, the team were unable to complete their fixtures dur to financial issues and withdrew from the league but have since returned but now race in the lower division.
The Ice Hockey World Championships are an annual international men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). First officially held at the 1920 Summer Olympics. The IIHF was created in 1908 while the European Championships, the precursor to the World Championships, were first held in 1910. The tournament held at the 1920 Summer Olympics is recognized as the first Ice Hockey World Championship. From 1920 to 1968, the Olympic hockey tournament was also considered the World Championship for that year.
The Grand Sports Arena of the Luzhniki Olympic Complex, commonly known as Luzhniki Stadium, is the national stadium of Russia, located in its capital city, Moscow. Its total seating capacity of 81,000 makes it the largest football stadium in Russia and the ninth-largest stadium in Europe. The stadium is a part of the Luzhniki Olympic Complex, and is located in Khamovniki District of the Central Administrative Okrug of Moscow city. The name Luzhniki derives from the flood meadows in the bend of Moskva River where the stadium was built, translating roughly as "The Meadows". The stadium is located at Luzhniki Street, 24, Moscow.
Poland's sports include almost all sporting disciplines, in particular: football, volleyball, motorcycle speedway, ski jumping, track and field, handball, basketball, tennis, and combat sport. The first Polish Formula One driver, Robert Kubica, has brought awareness of Formula One Racing to Poland. Volleyball is one of the country's most popular sports, with a rich history of international competition. Poland has made a distinctive mark in motorcycle speedway racing thanks to Tomasz Gollob, Jaroslaw Hampel, Bartosz Zmarzlik, Maciej Janowski and Rune Holta. Speedway is very popular in Poland. They won the world cup (2014), and the Polish Extraleague has the highest average attendances for any sport in Poland. The Polish mountains are an ideal venue for hiking, skiing and mountain biking and attract millions of tourists every year from all over the world. Cross country skiing and ski jumping are popular TV sports, gathering 4–5 million viewers each competition, with Justyna Kowalczyk, Dawid Kubacki, Adam Małysz and Kamil Stoch as the main attractions. Baltic beaches and resorts are popular locations for fishing, canoeing, kayaking and a broad-range of other water-themed sports.
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