Adam Skórnicki
{{short description|Polish motorcycle speedway rider (born 1976)}}
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{{Use British English|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox speedway rider
| name = Adam Skórnicki
| image = Adam Skornicki speedway rider in 2007.jpg
| caption = Skórnicki in 2007
| nationality = Polish
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1976|10|22}}
| birth_place = Wolsztyn, Poland
| nickname = Sqóra
| career1 = Poland
| career2 = Unia Leszno
| years2 = 1994-1999, 2004-2005
| career3 = Częstochowa
| years3 = 2000
| career4 = Rawicz
| years4 = 2001-2002
| career5 = Gniezno
| years5 = 2003, 2010
| career6 = Poznań
| years6 = 2006-2008
| career7 = Gdańsk
| years7 = 2009
| career9 = Great Britain
| career10 = Wolverhampton
| years10 = 2000-2005, 2009, 2010
| career11 = Lakeside Hammers
| years11 = 2005
| career12 = Oxford Cheetahs
| years12 = 2006
| career13 = Belle Vue Aces
| years13 = 2007
| career14 = Poole Pirates
| years14 = 2008
| career15 = Sweden
| career16 = Valsarna
| years16 = 2004
| career17 = Bajen
| years17 = 2005-2006
| career18 = Elit Vetlanda
| years18 = 2007, 2008
| career19 = Rospiggarna
| years19 = 2007
| career20 = Vargarna
| years20 = 2009
| career21 = Denmark
| years22 = 2001
| career22 = Holsted
| years23 = 2008
| career23 = Esbjerg
| indivhonour1 = Latvian Champion
| indivyear1 = 1999
| indivhonour2 = Polish Champion
| indivyear2 = 2008
| teamhonour1 = Elite League Champion
| teamyear1 = 2002, 2008, 2009
| teamhonour2 = Craven Shield
| teamyear2 = 2002
| teamhonour3 = Polish Junior Pairs Champion
| teamyear3 = 1996, 1997
}}
Adam Skórnicki (born 22 October 1976 in Wolsztyn, Poland) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Poland.Oakes, P.(2006). Speedway Star Almanac. {{ISBN|0-9552376-1-0}}{{cite web |url=https://speedway.com.pl/riders/adam-skornicki/ |title=Adam Skórnicki |website=Polish Speedway Database |access-date=10 February 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://britishspeedway.co.uk/docs/Ultimate_Index_1929-2022.pdf |title=Ultimate rider index, 1929-2022 |website=British Speedway |access-date=11 September 2024}}
Career
File:Adam Skornicki riding for Belle Vue in 2007.jpg
Skórnicki started racing in Poland for Unia Leszno in the 1994 Polish Speedway First League; he would spend six seasons with the club until the end of 1999. Skórnicki's first British club was Wolverhampton Wolves, whom he signed for in 2000.{{cite web |url=https://britishspeedway.co.uk/docs/Rider_Index_2008.pdf |title=2008 Rider index |website=British Speedway |access-date=4 April 2023}} He had six successful years there, scoring over 1000 points for the club and winning the Elite League Championship in 2002. His averaged improved from 5.79 in 2000 to 8.14 in 2005.
He was loaned out to Lakeside, Oxford and Belle Vue for the next three seasons, all of whom struggled at the bottom of the Elite League table. In 2002 Skórnicki made a guest appearance for the Poole Pirates in two legs of the Craven Shield Final.{{cite web | title = Skornicki: I always wanted Poole ride | publisher = Bournemouth Daily Echo | year = 2007 | url = http://archive.bournemouthecho.co.uk/2007/12/12/132727.html | accessdate = 2008-04-09 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} While riding in Poland during the same season he sustained a broken collarbone and dislocated shoulder in a track crash.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005576/20020903/762/0044 |title=Rider pins his hopes on laser |website=Wolverhampton Express and Star |date=3 September 2002 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=9 September 2024}}
Skórnicki signed for Poole on loan in 2008 and went on to win the 2008 Elite League championship with the club.{{cite web | title = Poole Speedway: Skornicki joins the Pirates ship | publisher = WorldSpeedway.com | year = 2007 | url = http://www.worldspeedway.com/artman/publish/article_4781.shtml | accessdate = 2008-04-09 }} In August 2008, Skórnicki became the Individual Polish Champion for the first time with a 15-point maximum score.{{cite web |url=http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/indmpolski.php|title=Polish Individual Speedway Championship|website=Historia Sportu Zuzlowego|access-date=27 July 2021}}
For the 2009 season, Skórnicki returned to his parent club the Wolverhampton Wolves in the United Kingdom. He also changed clubs in Poland and Sweden, to Gdańsk (in the Ekstraliga) and Vargarna respectively. For Wolves he became a regular points scorer and was integral during the 2009 Elite League speedway season, when Wolves won the league title, giving Skórnicki his second consecutive title.{{cite web |url=http://www.wolverhampton-speedway.com/extras/links_page/links.php?cat.4 |title=CATEGORY: 2009 SEASON (4) |website=Wolverhampton Speedway |access-date=10 February 2023}}
In 2010, he remained with Wolves and returned to Poznań from Gdańsk. It was his 17th consecutive season in the Polish leagues. He rode for various British and Polish clubs from 2012 to 2014 before retiring.
In June 2014, he was appointed as a manager of Unia Leszno{{Cite web|url=https://www.przegladsportowy.pl/zuzel/pge-ekstraliga/adam-skornicki-bedzie-nadal-managerem-fogo-unii-leszno/k8xgw20|title = Adam Skórnicki dogadany w Lesznie!|date = 21 November 2014}}
In 2017, he made a brief return, riding a handful of matches for his first British club Wolves and Kolejarz Rawicz in Poland.
References
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Category:Polish speedway riders
Category:European Pairs Speedway Champions
Category:Polish speedway champions
Category:Belle Vue Aces riders
Category:Lakeside Hammers riders
Category:Polish expatriate speedway riders in England
Category:Oxford Cheetahs riders