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Czechoslovakia national speedway team

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Czechoslovakia
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Best result
World Cup silver medal (1963)

The Czechoslovakia national speedway team were one of the teams that competed in international team motorcycle speedway.

History

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The Czechoslovakian speedway team (which consisted predominantly of Czech Republic riders) competed in the inaugural Speedway World Team Cup during the 1960 Speedway World Team Cup and won the bronze medal after finishing third in the final.[1] Throughout the history of World Team Cup, the team were regular World Cup contenders from 1960 until their final World Cup in 1992.[2] They reached the final on fourteen occasions, winning the silver medal in 1963 and two more bronze medals in 1977 and 1979.[3][4]

In addition to the four medals at the World Cup, the team won a bronze medal at the Speedway World Pairs Championship. The pair of Antonín Kasper Jr. and Roman Matoušek won the medal at the 1986 Speedway World Pairs Championship.

Following the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia at the end of 1992, the riders then competed for their new speedway nations of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Major world finals

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World team Cup

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Year Venue Standings (Pts) Riders Pts
1960 Sweden
Göteborg
Ullevi
1. Sweden Sweden (44)
2. England England (30)
3. Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (15)
4. Poland Poland (7)
Antonín Kasper Sr. 5
Luboš Tomíček Sr. 4
Jaroslav Machač 3
František Richter 3
1961 Poland
Wrocław
Stadion Olimpijski
1. Poland Poland (32)
2. Sweden Sweden (31)
3. England England (21)
4. Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (12)
Luboš Tomíček Sr. 7
Antonín Kasper Sr. 4
Bohumír Bartoněk 1
Stanislav Svoboda 0
1962 Czech Republic
Slaný
Slaný Speedway
1. Sweden Sweden (36)
2. United Kingdom Great Britain (24)
3. Poland Poland (20)
4. Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (16)
Luboš Tomíček Sr. 7
Bedřich Slaný 4
Jaroslav Volf 3
Karel Průša 2
Bohumír Bartoněk 0
1963 Austria
Vienna
Stadion Wien
1. Sweden Sweden (37)
2. Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (27)
3. United Kingdom Great Britain (25)
4. Poland Poland (7)
Antonín Kasper Sr. 10
Stanislav Kubíček 7
Miroslav Šmíd 7
Luboš Tomíček Sr. 5
1968 England
London
Wembley
1. United Kingdom Great Britain (40)
2. Sweden Sweden (30)
3. Poland Poland (19)
4. Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (7)
Antonín Kasper Sr. 3
Luboš Tomíček Sr. 2
Jaroslav Volf 1
Jan Holub I 1
1970 England
London
Wembley
1. Sweden Sweden (42)
2. United Kingdom Great Britain (31)
3. Poland Poland (20)
4. Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (3)
Václav Verner 3
Jiří Štancl 0
Miloslav Verner 0
Luboš Tomíček Sr. 0
Jan Holub I 0
Zdeněk Majstr 0
1977 Poland
Wrocław
Stadion Olimpijski
1. England England (37)
2. Poland Poland (25)
3. Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (23)
4. Sweden Sweden (11)
Jiří Štancl 8
Václav Verner 5
Jan Verner 5
Aleš Dryml Sr. 5
1978 West Germany
Landshut
Stadion Ellermühle
1. Denmark Denmark (37)
2. England England (27)
3. Poland Poland (19)
Czech Republic Czechoslovakia (18)
Jiří Štancl 9
Jan Verner 5
Aleš Dryml Sr. 2
Václav Verner 2
1979 England
London
White City Stadium
1. New Zealand New Zealand (35)
2. Denmark Denmark (31)
3. Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (19)
4. Poland Poland (11)
Jiří Štancl 6
Aleš Dryml Sr. 5
Zdeněk Kudrna 4
Václav Verner 4
1980 Poland
Wrocław
Stadion Olimpijski
1. England England (40)
2. United States United States (29)
3. Poland Poland (15)
4. Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (12)
Jiří Štancl 4
Petr Ondrašík 3
Václav Verner 3
Aleš Dryml Sr. 1
Zdeněk Kudrna 1
1982 England
London
White City Stadium
1. United States United States (37)
2. Denmark Denmark (24)
3. West Germany West Germany (18)
4. Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (17)
Aleš Dryml Sr. 7
Václav Verner 6
Jiří Štancl 4
Petr Ondrašík 0
Antonín Kasper Jr. 0
1983 Denmark
Vojens
Vojens Speedway Center
1. Denmark Denmark (37)
2. England England (29)
3. United States United States (27)
4. Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (3)
Jiří Štancl 2
Václav Verner 1
Antonín Kasper Jr. 0
Aleš Dryml Sr. 0
Petr Ondrašík 0
1987
Prague
Markéta Stadium
1. Denmark Denmark (46)
2. England England (31)
3. United States United States (26)
4. Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (17)
Roman Matoušek 9
Zdeněk Schneiderwind 3
Antonín Kasper Jr. 3
Petr Vandírek 2
Lubomír Jedek 0
1990 Czechoslovakia
Pardubice
Svítkov Stadion
1. United States United States (37)
2. England England (34)
3. Denmark Denmark (30)
4. Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (19)
Zdeněk Tesař 6
Bohumil Brhel 6
Roman Matoušek 3
Antonín Kasper Jr. 3
Vladimír Kalina 1

World Pairs finals

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International caps

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Since the advent of the Speedway Grand Prix era, international caps earned by riders is largely restricted to international competitions, whereas previously test matches between two teams were a regular occurrence.[5]

Rider Caps
Bartoněk, Bohumir
Brhel, Bohumil 10
Dryml Sr., Aleš 32
Hádek, Bořivoj 1
Hádek, Jan
Havelka, Rudolf
Holub I, Jan 12
Holub II, Jan
Hradecký, Ladislav 4
Jedek, Lubomír
Kalina, Vladimír 4
Karnas, Pavel 10
Kasper Jr., Antonín 42
Kasper Sr., Antonín 13
Kubíček, Stanislav
Kudrna, Zdeněk 9
Machač, Jaroslav
Majstr, Zdeněk
Mareš, Pavel
Matoušek, Roman 26
Ondrašík, Petr 26
Průša, Karel
Richter, František
Schneiderwind, Zdeněk
Slaný, Bedřich
Šmíd, Miroslav
Sova, Emil 7
Špinka, Milan 10
Štancl, Jiří 39
Svoboda, Stanislav
Tesař, Zdeněk 13
Tomíček Sr., Luboš
Urban, Stanislav 13
Vandírek, Petr 32
Verner, Jan 9
Verner, Miloslav
Verner, Václav 42
Volf, Jaroslav

References

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  1. ^ "1960 WORLD TEAM CUP". International Speedway. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  2. ^ Rogers, Martin (1978). The Illustrated History of Speedway. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. p. 134. ISBN 0-904584-45-3.
  3. ^ Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 99. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.
  4. ^ Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. pp. 27–28. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
  5. ^ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 12 October 2023.