Aleš Dryml Jr. (born 19 October 1979) is a former

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rider from the Czech Republic. He earned 23 international caps for the

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Career

Dryml and his younger brother

Lukáš Dryml Lukáš Dryml (born 16 April 1981 in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider from the Czech Republic. He earned 20 international caps for the Czech Republic national speedway team and represented his nati ...

were introduced to speedway by their father

Aleš Dryml Sr. Aleš Dryml Sr. (born 10 June 1953) is a Czech former motorcycle speedway rider who competed in speedway, longtrack and grasstrack racing. He earned 32 international caps for the Czechoslovakia national speedway team. Career Dryml reached four ...

, who was a former international speedway rider. Dryml came to the British speedway leagues in 2000 when he and his brother

joined the

Oxford Cheetahs The Oxford Cheetahs are a British Motorcycle speedway, speedway teamLawson,K (2018) “Riders, Teams and Stadiums”. based at Oxford Stadium, in Oxford, England. They were founded in 1939 and are five times champions of Britain, in 1964 Speed ...

for the 2002 Elite League speedway season. The pair came into the Oxford side relatively unknown because they had only ridden in the Czech Republic and Poland at the time. However, the British Authorities gave them inflated averages of 7.50 and 5.00, which would not help Oxford's 2000 league challenge as they finished second from last. Ales Dryml Oxford 2007 motorcycle speedway

Ales Dryml Oxford 2007 motorcycle speedway

The following season in 2001, Oxford brought in

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as heat leader and retained the Dryml brothers on reduced averages, this combination was a winning one, as the three riders were instrumental in helping Oxford win the 2001 Elite League. Dryml also finished second in the

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. After the 2002 season with Oxford, Ales joined the

Belle Vue Aces The Belle Vue Aces are a British speedway club, based in Manchester. The club hold the record of having won the top tier League championship 14 times. They currently compete in the SGB Premiership, racing at The National Speedway Stadium, wit ...

for the

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but was released so joined the

Poole Pirates Poole Pirates (also known as Poole Speedway) are a motorcycle speedway team based in Poole, England, competing in the SGB Championship. The club have been the champions of the United Kingdom on ten occasions. Poole Speedway is promoted by l ...

as a replacement for his brother who had broken his leg. Ales helped Poole finish the season as the league and

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double winners. In 2004, he joined

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and would also win his first of four

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s. The other would come in

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

and

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

. He also became a permanent rider of

2004 Speedway Grand Prix The 2004 Speedway Grand Prix was the 59th edition of the official World Championship and the tenth season in the Speedway Grand Prix era used to determine the Speedway World Champion. After finishing second in 2001, 2002 and 2003, Jason Crum ...

series. After the 2005 season with Peterborough he returned to his first club Oxford during 2006 and 2007 but rarely rode as his form dipped. However, he continued to ride in British speedway until the end of the 2014 season with Peterborough where he recorded a strong 7.90 average. He also represented the Czech Republic at the

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from 1999 to 2014. Ales Dryml

Results

* Individual World Championship (

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 ...

) **

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

- 41st place (1 point) **

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

- 36th place (3 points) **

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

- 22nd place (22 points) **

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

- 26th place (3 points) **

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

- 17th place (16 points) * Individual U-21 World Championship **

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

- 2nd place (11 points) **

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

- 4th place (11+X points) * Team World Championship (

) **

- 2nd place (10 points) **

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

- 7th place (9 points in Race-Off) **

- 5th place (13 points) **

- 6th place (11 points in Race-Off) **

- 6th place (4 points in Race-Off) **

- 9th place (10 points in Qualifying Round 2) **

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

- 7th place (0 points in Event 2) **

- 8th place **

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

- 7th place **

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

- 7th place **

- 4th place **

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

- 7th place * Individual European Championship **

- 10th place (7 points) **

- 2nd place (14+2 points) **

- 3rd place (13 points) **

- 2nd place (12 points) **

- 3rd place (12 points) **

- European Champion * Individual U-19 European Championship **

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

- 2nd place (13 points) * European Pairs Championship **

- European Champion (12 points) **

- 2nd place (14 points) **

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

- 4th place, but injury in Final (8 points in Semi-Final 1) **

- European Champion (10 points) **

- European Champion **

- European Champion (13 points) * Individual Czech Republic Championship ** 2011 - Czech Champion ** 2013 - Czech Champion * Individual Junior Czech Republic Championship ** 2004 - 3rd place (13+1 points) ** 2005 - 4th place (12+0 points) * Individual Czech Republic Long Track Championship ** 2012 - Czech Champion * Czech Republic Pairs Championship ** 2015 - Czech Champions * Czech Golden Helmet ** 2004 - 2nd place ** 2005 - 3rd place * Individual German Championship ** 1998 - 3rd place (12 points) ** 1999 - 10th place ** 2000 - 5th place (10 points) ** 2001 - 2nd place (13+2 points) ** 2003 - 6th place * Individual Junior German Championship ** 1996 - 2nd place ** 1998 - German Champion

World Longtrack Championship

Grand-Prix * 2012 - Qualifying Round Team Championship * 2011

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(4th) 7/36pts (Rode with

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, Richard Wolff, Pavel Ondrasik. * 2012 St. Macaire (5th) 16/30 (Rode with

, Richard Wolff, Michael Hadek.

European Grasstrack Championship

* 2011

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(13th)5pts * 2012

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(6th) 20pts

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dryml, Ales Jr. 1979 births Living people Czech speedway riders Belle Vue Aces riders Oxford Cheetahs riders Peterborough Panthers riders Poole Pirates riders Wolverhampton Wolves riders Czech expatriate speedway riders in England European Pairs Speedway Champions Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship riders Sportspeople from Pardubice

Career

Results

World Longtrack Championship

European Grasstrack Championship

See also

References