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Josef Franc (born 18 January 1979, in
Čáslav Čáslav (; german: Tschaslau) is a town in Kutná Hora District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 10,000 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. Administ ...
, Czech Republic) is a former international
motorcycle racer Motorcycle racing (also called moto racing and motorbike racing) is the motorcycle sport of racing motorcycles. Major varieties include motorcycle road racing and off-road racing, both either on circuits or open courses, and track racing. Oth ...
who competed in
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, Longtrack and
motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only ...
.


Career

He has appeared as a track reserve in the 2007 Czech Republic Speedway Grand Prix, scoring three points from two rides and has represented the
Czech Republic national speedway team The Czech Republic are one of the major teams in international speedway. They have never won the competition but have appeared in eight finals. Speedway World Team Cup Team U-21 World Championship Team U-19 European Championship S ...
at senior level. Franc was the Czech Republic Under-21 Champion in 1999 and was the Czech Republic national champion in 2017 and 2018. In 2019, he was part of the Czech team, along with
Hynek Štichauer Hynek Štichauer (born 17 June 1987) is a former speedway rider from the Czech Republic. Speedway career He rode in the top tier of British Speedway riding for the Wolverhampton Wolves Wolverhampton Wolves are a British speedway team bas ...
and Martin Málek, that won the bronze medal at the 2019 Team Long Track World Championship. In 2022, he was part of the Czech team, again with Málek and Štichauer, that won the silver medal at the 2022 Team Long Track World Championship.


Speedway Grand Prix results

* 2003, Prague SGP, 0 Points. * 2007, Prague SGP, 3 Points. * 2012, Prague SGP, 9 Points.


Career details


World Championships

* Individual World Championship and
Speedway Grand Prix Speedway Grand Prix are a series of stand-alone motorcycle speedway events over the course of a season used to determine the Speedway World Champion. The series started in 1995 replacing the previous format of a single event final. The first win ...
** 2003 - 45th place (1 pt in one event) ** 2007 - 28th place (3 pts in one event) * Team World Championship ( Speedway World Team Cup and
Speedway World Cup The Speedway World Cup is an annual speedway event held each year in different countries. The first edition of the competition in the current format was held in 2001 and replaced the old World Team Cup which ran from 1960 until 2000. The last ed ...
) ** 2003 - 6th place (started in Event 1 only) ** 2004 - 6th place **
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- 8th place ** '' 2007 - 2nd place in Qualifying round 2'' * Individual U-21 World Championship ** '' 1999 -
Vojens Vojens (german: Woyens) is a railway town in Denmark with a population of 7,475 (1 January 2022).2000 - Gorzów Wlkp. - 6th place (8 pts)


European Championships

* Individual European Championship ** 2002 -
Rybnik Rybnik (Polish pronunciation: ; szl, Rybńik) is a city in southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship, around 38 km (24 mi) southwest of Katowice, the region's capital, and around 19 km (11 miles) from the Czech border. It is ...
- 14th place (5 pts) ** '' 2003 -
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. Administ ...
- did not start as track reserve'' ** '' 2007 - 13th place in Qualifying Round 3'' ** 2008 -
Lendava Lendava (; formerly ''Dolnja Lendava'', in older sources also ''Dolenja Lendava''; hu, Lendva, formerly ''Alsólendva''; german: Lindau, formerly ''Unter-Limbach'') is a town in Slovenia in the region of Prekmurje. It is the seat of the Municip ...
- 6th place (10 pts) * Individual U-19 European Championship ** 1998 -
Krško Krško (; german: Gurkfeld) is a town in eastern Slovenia. It is the seat of the City municipality of Krško. The town lies on the Sava River and on the northwest edge of the Krško Plain ( sl, Krško polje), which is part of the larger Krka Flat ...
- 8th place (8 pts) * European Club Champions' Cup ** 2004 -
Ljubljana Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center. During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...
- 4th place (10 pts)


World Longtrack Championship

Grand-Prix Years * 1999 1 app (23rd) 4pts * 2010 1 app (18th) 19pts * 2011 6 app (13th) 51pts * 2012 6 app (Third) 126pts * 2013 6 app (4th) 91pts * 2014 4 app (10th) 32pts * 2015 4 app (5th) 53pts * 2016 5 app (7th) 55pts * 2017 5 app (Third) 86pts Best Grand-Prix Results *
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Second 2017 *
Forssa Forssa is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located almost in the centre of a triangle defined by the three largest major cities in Finland (Helsinki, Turku and Tampere), in the Tavastia Proper region, and which is crossed by Highway 2 ...
Second 2012 *
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First 2012 *
Marmande Marmande (; in Occitan, ''Marmanda'') is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne ''département'' in south-western France. Geography Marmande is located 35 km north-west of Agen, on the southern railway from Bordeaux to Sète. The town is situa ...
Second 2012 * Morizes First 2012, Second 2017 * Rzeszow Third 2013 Team Championship * 2010 Morizes (6th) 9/25pts (Rode with Zdenek Schneiderwind, Richard Wolff, Pavel Ondrasik). * 2011
Scheeßel Scheeßel (; Northern Low Saxon: ''Scheeßl'') is a municipality in the district of Rotenburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Wümme, approx. 10 km northeast of Rotenburg, 45 km east of Bremen, and 70 km south ...
(4th) 21/36pts (Rode with Ales Dryml jnr, Richard Wolff, Pavel Ondrasik). * 2012 St. Macaire (5th) 16/30 (Rode with Ales Dryml jnr, Richard Wolff, Michael Hadek). * 2013 Folkestone (7th) 11/23pts (Rode with Richard Wolff,
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). * 2014
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(6th) 13/23pts (Rode with Richard Wolff,
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). * 2015
Mühldorf Mühldorf am Inn (Central Bavarian: ''Muihdorf am Inn'') is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and the capital of the district Mühldorf on the river Inn. It is located at , and had a population of about 17,808 in 2005. History During the Middle Ages, ...
(6th) 18/30pts (Rode with Richard Wolff,
Michal Dudek Michal Dudek (born 20 September 1990) is a Czech motorcycle speedway rider and member of the Czech junior national team. Career details World Championships * Individual U-21 World Championship ** ''2008 - 16th place in the Qualifying Rou ...
,
Michal Skurla Michal (; he, מיכל , gr, Μιχάλ) was, according to the first Book of Samuel, a princess of the United Kingdom of Israel; the younger daughter of King Saul, she was the first wife of David (), who later became king, first of Juda ...
). * 2016 Marianske Lazne (Third) 18/42pts (Rode with Hynek Stichauer,
Martin Malek Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austr ...
). * 2017
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(4th) 28/43pts (Rode with Hynek Stichauer,
Martin Malek Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austr ...
). * 2018 Morizes (5th) 20/32pts (rode with
Martin Malek Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austr ...
,
Michal Skurla Michal (; he, מיכל , gr, Μιχάλ) was, according to the first Book of Samuel, a princess of the United Kingdom of Israel; the younger daughter of King Saul, she was the first wife of David (), who later became king, first of Juda ...
).


European Grasstrack Championship

Finalist * 1999 Werlte (16th) 1pt * 2011
Thorpe St Peter Thorpe St Peter is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England, about north-west from the town of Wainfleet. Thorpe is listed in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086 as having 33 households, two mills and a chur ...
(17th) 4pts * 2012
Eenrum Eenrum is a village in the Dutch province of Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Het Hogeland, 17 km northwest of the city of Groningen. Eenrum was a separate municipality until 1990, then it was merged with Ulrum, Kloosterbur ...
(Reserve N/S) * 2013
Bielefeld Bielefeld () is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 341,755, it is also the most populous city in the administrative region (''Regierungsbezirk'') of Detmold and the ...
(9th) 13pts * 2014 St. Macaire (4th) 13pts * 2015
Staphorst Staphorst () is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. History The villages of Staphorst and its southern neighbour Rouveen came into existence as in the 13th century monks started to bring the bogs and swamps into culture. All ...
(20th) 0pts * 2016 Folkestone (4th) 12pts * 2017 Hertingen (7th) 10pts * 2018 Tayac (Second) 15pts


Czech Longtrack Championship

* 2003 Marianske Lazne 12th * 2010 Marianske Lazne Second * 2011 Marianske Lazne Second * 2012 Marianske Lazne Second * 2013 Marianske Lazne First * 2014 Marianske Lazne First * 2015 Marianske Lazne First * 2017 Marianske Lazne First * 2018 Marianske Lazne First


See also

*
Czech Republic national speedway team The Czech Republic are one of the major teams in international speedway. They have never won the competition but have appeared in eight finals. Speedway World Team Cup Team U-21 World Championship Team U-19 European Championship S ...
*
List of Speedway Grand Prix riders This is a complete list of riders who have entered a FIM Speedway Grand Prix since 1995. ''After 2015 Scandinavian SGP in Stockholm (26 September 2015)'' Index A * Leigh Adams * Zoltán Adorján * Sebastian Aldén * Stefano Alfonso * ...


References


External links

* http://grasstrackgb.co.uk/josef-franc/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Franc, Josef 1979 births Living people Czech speedway riders Berwick Bandits riders Newcastle Diamonds riders People from Čáslav Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship riders Sportspeople from the Central Bohemian Region