Antonín Honig was a Czech

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who represented Czechoslovakia. In 1926, he was the Czechoslovak national champion, and he took part in the 1926 UCI Road World Championships. Two years later, he competed for

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

in the

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and team road race events at the

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. Honig's cycling activities were the inspiration for his cousin Josef Josten to take up sports journalism.

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* * Year of birth missing Year of death missing Czech male cyclists Olympic cyclists for Czechoslovakia Cyclists at the 1928 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing {{CzechRepublic-cycling-bio-stub