Autoklub v AČR Slaný is a Czech

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 ...

team based in

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, ur ...

, Czech Republic. The team race at the

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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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 a ...

won the

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 ...

as a Slaný rider, in 1995. Continuing as AK Slaný the team competed in the

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 ...

and won the Extraliga in 2005 and 2006. The team were sponsored by mobile phone company 3ton from 2015 to 2019.

References

{{reflist Speedway teams in the Czech Republic 1957 establishments in Czechoslovakia Sports clubs and teams established in 1957