Jaroslav Volf (1921-2001) was an international speedway rider from Czechoslovakia.

Speedway career

Volf reached the final of the

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in the

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World final appearances

Individual World Championship

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...

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– 15th – 3pts

World Team Cup

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 ...

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(with Luboš Tomíček Sr. /

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 ...

Bohumír Bartoněk 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 in the 1960 Speedway World Team Cup, he won a bronze medal despite n ...

) - 4th - 16pts (3) *

1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar ...

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(with Antonín Kasper Sr. / Luboš Tomíček Sr. /

Jan Holub I Jan Holub I (1942 – 2018) was a speedway rider from the Czech Republic. Speedway career Holub was a two times champion of the Czechoslovakia, winning the 1968 and 1969 Czechoslovakian Individual Speedway Championship. He rode in the top ti ...

) - 4th' - 7pts (1)

References

1921 births 2001 deaths Czech speedway riders People from Prague-East District Sportspeople from the Central Bohemian Region {{Speedway-stub