Bohumír Bartoněk (born 10 May 1939) is a former international speedway rider from

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Speedway career

Bartoněk reached the 1959 Continental Speedway final as part of the 1959 Individual Speedway World Championship. Bartoněk helped the Czech Republic reach the final of the inaugural

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at the

1960 Speedway World Team Cup 1960 Speedway World Team Cup was the first edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions. The final took place in Gothenburg, Sweden. The World Champion title was won by Sweden team (44 pts) who beat England ...

, where he won a bronze medal despite not riding because he was the official reserve rider. He was twice a Continental Speedway Finalist in 1959 and 1961.>

World final appearances

World Team Cup

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...

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(with

František Richter František Richter (27 August 1931 – 27 March 2020) was a Czech international speedway rider. Speedway career Richter reached the final of the inaugural Speedway World Team Cup at the 1960 Speedway World Team Cup, winning a bronze medal. ...

Luboš Tomíček Sr. Luboš Tomíček, Sr. (1934-1968) was an international speedway rider from Czechoslovakia. Speedway career Tomíček reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1965 Individual Speedway World Championship. He was also the cap ...

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 ...

) - 3rd - 15pts (dnr) *

1961 Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and cons ...

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(with Antonín Kasper Sr. / Stanislav Svoboda / Luboš Tomíček Sr.) - 4th - 1pts (7) *

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

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 ...

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(with Bedřich Slaný /

Karel Průša Karel Průša (7 May 1938 – 14 August 2019) was a Czech international speedway rider. Speedway career Průša began his speedway career riding at the Flóra Stadium in Žatec, after being introduced to the sport by his older brother Josef ...

Jaroslav Volf Jaroslav Volf (; born 29 September 1979, in Brandýs nad Labem) is a Czech slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1994 to 2013. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the C2 event with a silver in 2008 a ...

/ Luboš Tomíček Sr.) - 4th - 16pts (0)

References

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