Jan Holub I

Czech speedway rider (1942–2018)

Jan Holub I
Career history
Born	(1942-08-12)12 August 1942 České Budějovice, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Died	18 February 2018(2018-02-18) (aged 75) České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Nationality	Czech
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

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]

Holub reached three Speedway World Pairs Championship finals, the third was in 1974 when partnered Jan Hadek to the final at the 1974 Speedway World Pairs Championship,^[8] which was won by Sweden.

In 1977, the Bristol Bulldogs team manager Pat Tapson unsuccessfully asked the Czech authorities to allow Holub and Jan Hadek to compete in the British leagues.^[9]

World Final appearances

World Pairs Championship

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

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

^ "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.
^ "It's Ivan and me for pairs event". Sports Argus. 29 June 1974. Retrieved 27 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "Kiwi star signed uo by Bulldogs". Western Daily Press. 22 March 1977. Retrieved 27 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.