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Henryk Żyto (1936-2018) was an international motorcycle speedway rider from Poland. He earned 32 international caps for the Poland national speedway team.

Speedway career

Żyto reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1960 Individual Speedway World Championship. Also in 1960, he rode for Coventry Bees in the British speedway leagues, during the 1960 Speedway National League and won both the Midland Riders' Championship and the Midland Cup.

He was the Polish champion during the 1963 Polish speedway season, after he won gold medal at the Polish Individual Speedway Championship.

World final appearances

Individual World Championship

• 1960 - London, Wembley Stadium - 13th - 4pts
• 1962 - London, Wembley Stadium - Reserve, did not ride

World Team Cup

• 1961 - Wrocław, Olympic Stadium (with Marian Kaiser / Mieczysław Połukard / Florian Kapała / Stanisław Tkocz) - Winner - 32pts (12)
• 1963 - Vienna, Stadion Wien (with Andrzej Pogorzelski / Marian Kaiser / Joachim Maj / Stanisław Tkocz) - 4th - 7pts (4)

References

1. "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
2. ^ "Ultimate Rider Index, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
3. "World Speedway finals" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
4. Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. p. 66. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
5. "Bees' Sparkling Win in Midland Cup Final". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 26 September 1960. Retrieved 19 October 2023 – via British Newspaper Archive.
6. "Passion for speedway". Leszno - Rozwiń Skrzydła. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
7. Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 101. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.

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