József Tabaka (born 17 September 1989) is a Hungarian former
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 earned 5 caps for the
Hungary national speedway team.
Career
Tabaka started racing in the British leagues during the
2010 Premier League speedway season, when riding for the
Edinburgh Monarchs
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. He stayed with Edinburgh in 2012 and 2013 and was part of the Edinburgh team that won the
Premier League Four-Team Championship, which was held on 14 July 2013, at the
East of England Arena.
In 2017, he became the
Hungarian national champion for the fourth time
Honours
World Championships
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Individual Under-21 World Championship
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2009
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Goričan
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Goričan is the only village belonging to the municipality. Its population in the 2011 census was 2,823. Of the entire population, 2,763 people identified them ...
- 13th place (3 pts), as track reserve rode in two heat
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2010
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- 10th place in the Qualifying Round 1''
See also
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Hungary national speedway team
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U21
References
1989 births
Living people
Hungarian speedway riders
Edinburgh Monarchs riders
Expatriate speedway riders in Scotland
Sportspeople from Debrecen
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Poland
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