Bohumír Bartoněk (born 10 May 1939) is a former international speedway rider from Czechoslovakia.

Speedway career

Bartoněk reached the final of the

Speedway World Team Cup The Speedway World Team Cup was an annual speedway event held each year in different countries. The competition started in 1960 and was replaced with the Speedway World Cup in 2001. Format From 1960 until 1985 each team consisted of four riders ...

in the

1960 Speedway World Team Cup 1960 Speedway World Team Cup was the first edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions. The final took place in Gothenburg, Sweden. The World Champion title was won by Sweden team (44 pts) who beat England (30 ...

, he won a bronze medal despite not riding because he was the official reserve rider. He was twice a

Continental Speedway Final The Continental Final was a Motorcycle speedway Final sanctioned by the FIM as the qualifying round for the Speedway World Championship between 1976 and 2000. From 1952-1975 it acted as the final qualifier for the Championship Round or European F ...

ist in 1959 and 1961.

World final appearances

World Team Cup

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...

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František Richter František Richter (27 August 1931 - 27 March 2020) was an international speedway rider from Czechoslovakia. Speedway career Richter reached the final of the Speedway World Team Cup in the 1960 Speedway World Team Cup. He was champion of Cze ...

/ Luboš Tomíček Sr. / Antonín Kasper Sr.) - 3rd - 15pts (dnr) *

1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...

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(with Antonín Kasper Sr. / Stanislav Svoboda / Luboš Tomíček Sr.) - 4th - 1pts (7) *

1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ...

Slaný Slaný (; german: Schlan) is a town in Kladno District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 16,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. Administr ...

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Bedřich Slaný Bedřich Slaný (born 20 January 1932) is a former international speedway rider from Czechoslovakia. Speedway career Slaný reached the final of the Speedway World Team Cup in the 1962 Speedway World Team Cup. He was three times Continental S ...

Karel Průša Karel Průša (1938–2019) was an international speedway rider from Czechoslovakia. Speedway career Průša reached the final of the Speedway World Team Cup in the 1962 Speedway World Team Cup. World final appearances World Team Cup * 196 ...

Jaroslav Volf Jaroslav Volf (; born 29 September 1979, in Brandýs nad Labem) is a Czech slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1994 to 2013. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the C2 event with a silver in 2008 an ...

/ Luboš Tomíček Sr.) - 4th - 16pts (0)

References

1939 births Living people Czech speedway riders {{Speedway-stub