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 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. Throughout the history of World Team Cup, the team were regular World Cup contenders from 1960 until their final World Cup in 1992. They reached the final on fourteen occasions, winning the silver medal in 1963 and two more bronze medals in 1977 and 1979.
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

World Pairs finals

International caps

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.
RiderCaps
Bartoněk, Bohumir
Brhel, Bohumil10
Dryml Sr., Aleš32
Hádek, Bořivoj1
Hádek, Jan
Havelka, Rudolf-
Holub I, Jan12
Holub II, Jan
Hradecký, Ladislav4
Jedek, Lubomír
Kalina, Vladimír4
Karnas, Pavel10
Kasper Jr., Antonín42
Kasper Sr., Antonín13
Kubíček, Stanislav
Kudrna, Zdeněk9
Machač, Jaroslav
Majstr, Zdeněk
Mareš, Pavel
Matoušek, Roman26
Ondrašík, Petr26
Průša, Karel
Richter, František
Schneiderwind, Zdeněk
Slaný, Bedřich
Šmíd, Miroslav
Sova, Emil7
Špinka, Milan10
Štancl, Jiří39
Svoboda, Stanislav
Tesař, Zdeněk13
Tomíček Sr., Luboš
Urban, Stanislav13
Vandírek, Petr32
Verner, Jan9
Verner, Miloslav
Verner, Václav42
Volf, Jaroslav