Leszno win the Polish Championship for third year in a row crushing Wroclaw at home in the final, whilst Częstochowa lose at Zielona but still take Bronze in the 3/4th playoff.
The Final #LESWRO
BETARD SPARTA Wroclaw came to FOGO UNIA Leszno off the back of a narrow home defeat in the first leg of the final by just four points They knew that they had to do what no team has managed to do this year - win in Leszno.
So when the talented Wroclaw team only gained their first heat advantage in Heat 8 the final was already well out of reach with the score at 30-18.
Nothing went right for the visitors with SGP riders Tai Woffinden and Maciej Janowski scored just 3 and 2 apiece, leaving Maskym Drabik to get the points, 13 in total, nearly half of the whole team’s dismal total of 31.
Compare that to winners Leszno who only had two of their seven riders with less than 10 points. It was another Pole, Piotr Pawlicki, who topped their list with 12 pts as the team scored 59 to run out winners by 106:74 on aggregate to mean that the Gold remains in Leszno for another year.
3/4th playoff #ZIECZE
STELMET FALUBAZ Zielona Gora ended the season with a win in front of the home fans, 45:44, but it was not enough take third place from forBET WLOKNIARZ Częstochowa is this second leg of the third and fourth Playoff. The visitors had paved the way to victory with their emphatic home victory in the first leg, 57:33.
Zielona started well and by Heat 4 lead by 8 points, but were never able to stretch that out and get anywhere near the 25 points advantage they needed.
The team’s Martin Vaculik (9+1) and Michael Jepsen Jensen (11) played their heat leader role but Patryk Dudek (6+1) continued to struggle and cannot find the form that meant he was leading in the SGP at the beginning of the year.
For Częstochowa it was their SGP riders who would secure a hard fought for bronze medal. Leon Madsen followed up his Cardiff SGP victory on Saturday with another commanding performance just dropping one point with 13+1. Meanwhile Fredrik Lindgren took 10 and Matej Zagar who, in contrast to Dudek, is just getting better and better as the season goes on gained 11 +1.
Częstochowa secured an impressive third place and Madsen continues to impress whenever he races.
