Antonín Kasper (5 December 1962 – 31 July 2006) also known as Toni Kasper during his racing career, was 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 ...

rider. He appeared in four

Speedway World Championship The World Championship of Speedway is an international competition between the highest-ranked motorcycle speedway riders of the world, run under the auspices of the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). The first official championsh ...

finals and featured in four

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 ...

series. He earned 42 international caps for the

Czechoslovakia national speedway team The Czechoslovakia national speedway team were one of the teams that competed in international team motorcycle speedway. History The Czechoslovakian speedway team (which consisted predominantly of Czech Republic riders) competed in the inaugu ...

and 15 caps for the

Czech Republic national speedway team The Czech Republic national speedway team is one of the major teams in international motorcycle speedway. History As Czechoslovakia The Czechoslovakia speedway team (which consisted predominantly of Czech Republic riders) competed in the ina ...

Career

Kasper won the 1982 European Under-21 Championship at the Rottalstadion in

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. He won the title, after finishing on 14 points. He then joined Hackney Hawks in the British leagues and rode for them in 1982 and 1983. In 1987, he represented the Czechoslovak national team during the final of the

1987 Speedway World Team Cup The 1987 Speedway World Team Cup was the 28th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions. Denmark won two legs and therefore won their fifth consecutive title (and seventh in total) moving to just one title ...

. On 25 July 1998, he won the Continental Final, which formed part of the 1999 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification. Kasper rode in the United Kingdom for the Hackney Hawks from 1982 until their closure the following season at the end of 1983. He rode for

Karlstad Karlstad (, ) is the 20th-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city proper had 67,122 inhabitants in 2020 with 97,233 inhabitan ...

in Sweden in 1991. In 2005 Kasper was diagnosed with cancer, and he died in 2006.Tribute to Toni Kasper
As a child actor he appeared in two Czech films.

Family

His father

Antonín Kasper Sr. Antonín Kasper Sr. (31 October 1932 – 12 November 2017) was an international Motorcycle speedway rider from Czechoslovakia. He earned 13 international caps for the Czechoslovakia national speedway team. Speedway career Kasper Sr. won two m ...

also appeared in

finals.

World Final appearances

Individual World Championship

1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...

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Motodrom Halbemond The Motodrom Halbemond is a 34,000-capacity motorcycle speedway stadium in Halbemond, located about 5 kilometres southeast of Norden, Germany. There is a motocross course adjacent to the stadium directly east of the Motodrom. The venue is used ...

– 14th – 3 points *

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...

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Chorzów Chorzów ( ; ; ) is a city in the Silesia region of southern Poland, near Katowice. Chorzów is one of the central cities of the Metropolis GZM – a metropolis with a population of 2 million. It is located in the Silesian Highlands, on the Rawa ...

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– 14th – 2 pts *

1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...

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– 12th – 9 pts *

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

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– 15th – 2 pts

World Team Cup

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...

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(with

Jiří Štancl Jiří Štancl (born 18 November 1949) is a Czech former international motorcycle speedway rider. He earned 39 international caps for the Czechoslovakia national speedway team. Career Štancl was born on 18 November 1949 in Prague, Czechoslov ...

/ Aleš Dryml /

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Petr Ondrašík Petr Ondrašík (born 8 October 1951 in Brezolupy, Czechoslovakia) is a former Czechoslovak international motorcycle speedway rider. He earned 26 caps for the Czechoslovakian national speedway team. Career Ondrašík reached the World Final ...

) – 4th – 17 pts (0) *

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Vojens Vojens () is a railway town in Denmark with a population of 7,424 (1 January 2025).Speedway Center (with

/ Aleš Dryml /

) – 4th – 3 pts (0) *

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Markéta Stadium The Markéta Stadium () is a 10,000-capacity multi-use stadium on U Vojtěšky in Břevnov, Prague, Czech Republic. The stadium hosts motorcycle speedway and has been the home of the Speedway Grand Prix of Czech Republic since 1997. The speedwa ...

(with

Roman Matoušek Roman Matoušek (23 May 1964 – 8 January 2020) was a Czechs, Czech Motorcycle speedway, speedway rider. He earned 26 international caps for the Czechoslovakia national speedway team. Speedway career Matoušek was the champion of the Czechos ...

/ Petr Vandírek / Lubomír Jedek / Zdeněk Schneiderwind) - 4th - 36pts (10)

World Pairs Championship

, Rottalstadion (with

) – 3rd – 32pts *

Pardubice Pardubice (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 92,000 inhabitants. It is the capital city of the Pardubice Region and lies on the Elbe River. The historic centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Repub ...

, Svítkov Stadion (with

) – 5th – 30 pts

Speedway Grand Prix results

References

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