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AK Slaný
Autoklub v AČR Slaný is a Czech motorcycle speedway team based in Slaný, Czech Republic. The team race at the Slaný Speedway Stadium. History The training of club riders first took place in 1957 and the team first competed in the Czechoslovak Team Speedway Championship during 1967, finishing second in group A of the 1.liga. Club rider Jan Holub I won the Czechoslovak Individual Speedway Championship in 1969 and Jan Klokočka rode for the club for 18 years. The team were champions of the former Czechoslovakia in 1969 and competed as Bateria Slaný (due to a battery company sponsorship) until 1986. They took on the name of Výstavba dolu Slaný (due to a mining construction company sponsorship) several years before the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia. Zdeněk Tesař won the Czech Republic Individual Speedway Championship as a Slaný rider, in 1995. Continuing as AK Slaný the team competed in the Czech Republic Team Speedway Championship The Czech Republic Speedway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slaný Speedway Stadium
Slaný Speedway Stadium () is a speedway track in Slaný, Czech Republic. The track is located on the Netovická road in the southeastern area of the town. The stadium hosts the speedway team AK Slaný. History The stadium was constructed throughout 1948 and 1949 and opened on 13 August 1950. Major reconstructions took place in 1958 and 1974, the latter when FIM regulations required a cinder/shale track. In-between the stadium hosted arguably what was its most significant event, the final of the 1962 Speedway World Team Cup, which attracted a crowd of 35,000. Further major events took place at the track when the final of the Speedway Under-21 World Championship was held in 1981 and 1988 respectively. In 1986, the width of the track increased allowing six riders to race and in 1988 a grandstand opened which featured VIP areas and seating for 1,000 spectators. The 2002 Speedway Under-21 World Championship was hosted at the stadium and was won by Czech rider Lukáš Dryml and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Republic Team Speedway Championship
The Czech Republic Speedway Team Championships is an annual motorcycle speedway event held each year and organised by the Autoklub České republiky to determine the champions of the Czech Republic. From 1956 until 1991 the competition was for teams in Czechoslovakia, although due to the lack of clubs in Slovakia, it was dominated by Czech teams. The competition is today called the Extraliga for the top division and the 1.Liga for the division below. Past winners Czechoslovakia (1956-1991) Czech Republic See also * Czech Republic national speedway team * Czechoslovakia national speedway team * Speedway Grand Prix of Czech Republic * Czech Republic Individual Speedway Championship The Czech Republic Individual Speedway Championship is a motorcycle speedway championship held each year to determine the Czech Republic national champion. History It was first staged in 1949, and was known as the Czechoslovakia Individual ... References {{International spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that use only one gear and have no brakes. Racing takes place on a flat oval track usually consisting of soil, dirt, loosely packed shale, or crushed rock (mostly used in Australia and New Zealand). Competitors use this surface to slide their machines sideways, powersliding or broadsiding into the bends. On the straight sections of the track, the motorcycles reach speeds of up to . There are now both domestic and international competitions in a number of countries, including the Speedway World Cup, whilst the highest overall scoring individual in the Speedway Grand Prix events is pronounced the world champion. Speedway is popular in Central Europe, Central and Northern Europe and to a lesser extent in Australia and North America. A variant of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slaný
Slaný (; ) is a town in Kladno District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 17,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zones, urban monument zone. Administrative division Slaný consists of ten municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Slaný (13,728) *Blahotice (27) *Dolín (412) *Kvíc (467) *Kvíček (790) *Lotouš (61) *Netovice (77) *Otruby (110) *Trpoměchy (154) *Želevčice (119) Etymology The word ''slaný'' literally means 'salty' in Czech. According to the Wenceslaus Hajek's chronicle records, Slaný was founded at the site of a salt spring below the hill of Slánská hora. Geography Slaný is located about north of Kladno and northwest of Prague. It lies in the Prague Plateau. The highest point and a dominant feature of the town's panorama is the hill Slánská hora at above sea level. The stream of Červený potok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Holub I
Jan Holub I (12 August 1942 – 18 February 2018) was a Czech motorcycle speedway rider. He was capped 12 times by the Czechoslovak national speedway team. Speedway career Holub was a two times champion of the Czechoslovakia, winning the 1968 and 1969 Czechoslovak Individual Speedway Championship. In 1967, he was part of the Prague team that toured the United Kingdom and 1968, where he starred alongside Antonín Kasper Sr. and Antonín Šváb Sr. He rode in the top tier of British Speedway riding for Exeter Falcons from 1969 until 1970. Holub reached three Speedway World Pairs Championship finals, the third was in 1974 when partnered Jan Hadek to the final at the 1974 Speedway World Pairs Championship, which was won by Sweden. In 1977, the Bristol Bulldogs team manager Pat Tapson unsuccessfully asked the Czech authorities to allow Holub and Jan Hadek to compete in the British leagues. World Final appearances World Pairs Championship * 1969 - Stockholm (with Zdeněk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Republic Individual Speedway Championship
The Czech Republic Individual Speedway Championship is a motorcycle speedway championship held each year to determine the Czech Republic national champion. History It was first staged in 1949, and was known as the Czechoslovakia Individual Speedway Championship until 1992, when the country then divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Jiří Štancl is the most successful rider having won the title 12 times, including ten years in a row from 1972 to 1981. Past winners See also * Sport in the Czech Republic * Czech Republic national speedway team * Czech Republic Team Speedway Championship References {{International speedway Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ... Speedway competitions in the Czech Republic 1949 establishments i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dissolution Of Czechoslovakia
The dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took effect on December 31, 1992, was the Self-determination, self-determined Partition (politics), partition of the federal republic of Fifth Czechoslovak Republic, Czechoslovakia into the independent countries of the Czech Republic (also known as Czechia) and Slovakia. Both mirrored the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic, which had been created in 1969 as the constituent states of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic until the end of 1989. It is sometimes known as the Velvet Divorce, a reference to the Nonviolent revolution, bloodless Velvet Revolution of 1989, which had led to the end of the rule of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Background Czechoslovakia was created with the dissolution of Austria-Hungary at the end of World War I. In 1918, a meeting took place in the American city of Pittsburgh, at which the future Czechoslovak President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and other Czech and Slovak represent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdeněk Tesař
Zdeněk Tesař (born 30 July 1964) is a former speedway rider from the Czech Republic. He earned 13 international caps for the Czechoslovakia national speedway team. Speedway career He reached two Speedway World Championship finals in 1990 and 1992. He won the 1995 Czech Republic Individual Speedway Championship. He rode in the top tier of British Speedway riding for Belle Vue Aces, Ipswich Witches and Peterborough Panthers from 1991 until 2002. World Final appearances Individual World Championship * 1990 - Bradford, Odsal Stadium - 13th - 2pts * 1992 - Wrocław, Olympic Stadium - 15th - 5pts World Pairs Championship * 1989 - Leszno, Alfred Smoczyk Stadium (with Bohumil Brhel) - 7th - 25pts * 1991 - Poznań, Olimpia Poznań Stadium (with Roman Matoušek and Bohumil Brhel Bohumil Brhel (born 10 June 1965) is a Czech former motorcycle speedway rider. He earned 10 international caps for the Czechoslovakia national speedway team and 15 caps for the Czech Republic na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speedway Teams In The Czech Republic
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1957 Establishments In Czechoslovakia
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