BARTOSZ WINS GOLDEN HELMET FOR THE FOURTH TIME

Five-time World Speedway GP Champion Bartosz Zmarzlik raced to his fourth Golden Helmet in Opole on Monday (April 21) as Dominik Kubera secured his spot in the SGP qualification rounds.

Zmarzlik topped the podium, winning a run-off with double SGP2 Champion Mateusz Cierniak after the pair tied on 11 points. Despite missing out on the Golden Helmet, runner-up Cierniak left Opole with plenty to celebrate after earning places in the 2026 Speedway GP and 2025 Speedway European Championship qualification rounds, which take place in the coming months.

Kubera collected third place after triumphing over Kacper Woryna in a run-off. The duo tied on 10 points. This was enough to put Kubera into the Speedway GP qualification rounds, and Woryna claimed the final spot on offer.

With Zmarzlik and Kubera ineligible for the SEC qualifiers as full-time SGP riders and fourth-placed Woryna and fifth-placed Piotr Pawlicki, who scored nine, already qualified for the continental series, the remaining SEC qualification-round spots went to Bartlomiej Kowalski, Grzegorz Zengota, Robert Chmiel and former world number 2 Patryk Dudek, who all scored eight points. Former SGP star Przemyslaw Pawlicki took the final berth on seven.

Former Polish international Krzysztof Buczkowski just missed out on six, while SGP2 champion Wiktor Przyjemski fell short on five, along with former SGP riders Janusz Kolodziej and Szymon Wozniak.

There was also disappointment for former world number 3 Maciej Janowski and double SGP silver medallist Jaroslaw Hampel, who scored just four points.

But they will all be hoping for a wild card into the SEC qualifiers as Polish team manager Rafal Dobrucki will nominate the nation’s remaining two entrants.

GOLDEN HELMET SCORES: 1. Bartosz Zmarzlik 11+3, 2. Mateusz Cierniak 11+2, 3. Dominik Kubera 10+3, 4. Kacper Woryna 10+2, 5. Piotr Pawlicki 9, 6. Bartłomiej Kowalski 8, 7. Grzegorz Zengota 8, 8. Robert Chmiel 8, 9. Patryk Dudek 8, 10. Przemysław Pawlicki 7, 11. Krzysztof Buczkowski 6, 12. Wiktor Przyjemski 5, 13. Janusz Kołodziej 5, 14. Szymon Woźniak 5, 15. Jarosław Hampel 4, 16. Maciej Janowski 4, 17. Oskar Fajfer 1, 18. Oskar Paluch 0.