Pavel Mareš (speedway Rider)
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Pavel Mareš (20 January 1943 – 4 June 2023) was an international speedway rider from the Czech Republic.


Speedway career

Mareš won the silver medal in the 1965 Czechoslovakian Individual Speedway Championship. He also partnered
Václav Verner Václav Verner (6 May 1949 – 13 March 2018) was an international speedway rider. He earned 42 international caps for the Czechoslovakia national speedway team. Speedway career He was the individual champion of Czechoslovakia, after winning t ...
to the World Pairs final at the
1971 Speedway World Pairs Championship The 1971 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the second FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship. The final took place on 11 July 1971 in Rybnik, Poland. The championship was won by Poland (maximum 30 points) who beat New Zealand (25 points) a ...
where they finished just outside the medals in fourth place behind winners Poland. Mareš also raced in ice speedway and participated in the 1967 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship. Like many Czech riders of the time, the Czechsolovak authorities rarely allowed riders to compete for British league teams but they did allow club sides such as Prague to tour the United Kingdom, which allowed Mareš to race in Britain in 1967 and again in 1971. By 1974 he was a recognised name in speedway circles in the United Kingdom despite not being able to ride in the British leagues.


World Final appearances


World Pairs Championship

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1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...
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Rybnik Rybnik (Polish pronunciation: ; ) is a city in southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship, around 38 km (24 mi) southwest of Katowice, the region's capital, and around 19 km (11 mi) from the Czech Republic, Czech border. It i ...
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Rybnik Municipal Stadium Rybnik Stadium (Polish - Stadion Miejski w Rybniku) is a motorcycle speedway and association football stadium located in the northern part of Rybnik off Gliwicka 72. The stadium is the home arena of Polish speedway team KS ROW Rybnik who compet ...
(with
Václav Verner Václav Verner (6 May 1949 – 13 March 2018) was an international speedway rider. He earned 42 international caps for the Czechoslovakia national speedway team. Speedway career He was the individual champion of Czechoslovakia, after winning t ...
) - 4th - 17pts (8)


References

1948 births 2023 deaths Czech speedway riders Czechoslovak speedway riders Sportspeople from Ústí nad Labem {{Speedway-stub