Marian Kaiser

Marian Kaiser
Born	14 January 1933; Kołodziejewo, Poland
Died	10 April 1991 (aged 58); Regensburg, Switzerland
Nationality	Polish
Career history
Poland
1950-1952	Gorzów
1953	Świętochłowice
1953-1954	Wrocław
1955-1959	Warszawa
1960-1966	Gdańsk
Great Britain
1959	Leicester Hunters
Individual honours
1960, 1966	Speedway World Championship finalist
1957	Polish Championship
1960	European Champion
1962	Continental Champion
1962	Poland Golden Helmet Winner
Team honours
1961	World Team Cup Winner

Marian Kaiser (14 January 1933 – 10 April 1991) was an international motorcycle speedway rider from Poland.^[1] He earned 31 international caps for the Poland national speedway team.^[2]

Speedway career

In 1956 he toured the United Kingdom with the Polish team, which cost £2,000 to organise and was paid by the Polish Motor Club and British authorities.^[4] He was the Polish champion in 1957 after he won gold at the Polish Individual Speedway Championship.^[5] Kaiser reached the 1958 European Final as part of the 1958 Individual Speedway World Championship.^[6]

Coventry Bees promoter Charles Ochiltree unsuccessfully attempted to sign Kaiser out of retirement in 1968.^[7]

^ "WORLD INDIVIDUAL FINAL - RIDER INDEX". British Speedway. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
^ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
^ "World Speedway finals" (PDF). Speedway Researcher. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
^ "Polish speedway team visits England". Halifax Evening Courier. 4 May 1956. Retrieved 10 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 101. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
^ "Challenge". Sunday Mirror. 13 July 1958. Retrieved 11 September 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Kaiser out - Kasper in". Sunday Mirror. 19 May 1968. Retrieved 26 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.

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