Jan Holub I
Appearance
Born | České Budějovice, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia | 12 August 1942
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Died | 18 February 2018 České Budějovice, Czech Republic | (aged 75)
Nationality | Czech |
Career history | |
Czechoslovakia | |
1969 | Slaný |
Great Britain | |
1969-1970 | Exeter Falcons |
Individual honours | |
1968, 1969 | Czechoslovak champion |
Jan Holub I (12 August 1942 – 18 February 2018) was a motorcycle speedway rider from the Czech Republic.[1] He was capped 12 times by the Czechoslovakian national speedway team.[2]
Speedway career
[edit]Holub was a two times champion of the Czechoslovakia, winning the 1968 and 1969 Czechoslovak Individual Speedway Championship.[3][4][5]
In 1967, he was part of the Prague team that toured the United Kingdom.[6]
He rode in the top tier of British Speedway riding for Exeter Falcons from 1969 until 1970.[7]
World Final appearances
[edit]World Pairs Championship
[edit]- 1969 -
Stockholm (with Zdeněk Majstr) - 5th - 12pts (8)
- 1972 -
Borås (with Jiří Štancl) - 6th - 12pts (5)
- 1974 –
Manchester, Hyde Road (with Jan Hadek) – 7th – 6pts (3)
World Team Cup
[edit]- 1968 -
London, Wembley Stadium (with Antonín Kasper Sr. / Luboš Tomíček Sr. / Jaroslav Volf) - 4th - 7pts
- 1970 -
London, Wembley Stadium (with Zdeněk Majstr / Jiří Štancl / Miloslav Verner / Václav Verner) - 4th - 3pts
References
[edit]- ^ "Speedway riders, history and results". wwosbackup. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- ^ "ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ^ Oakes, Peter (1981). 1981 Speedway Yearbook. Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd. p. 78. ISBN 0-86215-017-5.
- ^ "Czech champions". Speedway Stats. 31 January 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ "Individual Czechoslovak Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
- ^ "Speedway Czechs meet King's Lynn". Peterborough Evening Telegraph. 4 August 1967. Retrieved 17 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
- ^ "History Archive". British Speedway. Retrieved 2 July 2021.