Bohumír Bartoněk

Bohumír Bartoněk
Born	10 May 1939 (age 85); Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Nationality	Czech
Career history
Czechoslovakia
1958–1966	Rudá Hvězda Praha
Individual honours
1959, 1961	Continental finalist
Team honours
1960	Speedway World Team Cup bronze medal
1961, 1962	Speedway World Team Cup finalist

Bohumír Bartoněk (born 10 May 1939) is a former international speedway rider from Czechoslovakia.^[1]

Speedway career

Bartoněk reached the 1959 Continental Speedway final as part of the 1959 Individual Speedway World Championship.^[2]

Bartoněk helped the Czech Republic reach the final of the inaugural Speedway World Team Cup at the 1960 Speedway World Team Cup,^[3] where he won a bronze medal despite not riding because he was the official reserve rider.^[4] He was twice a Continental Speedway Finalist in 1959 and 1961.^[5]^[6]>

1960 - Göteborg, Ullevi (with František Richter / Luboš Tomíček Sr. / Antonín Kasper Sr.) - 3rd - 15pts (dnr)
1961 - Wrocław, Olympic Stadium (with Antonín Kasper Sr. / Stanislav Svoboda / Luboš Tomíček Sr.) - 4th - 1pts (7)
1962 - Slaný, Slaný Speedway Stadium (with Bedřich Slaný / Karel Průša / Jaroslav Volf / Luboš Tomíček Sr.) - 4th - 16pts (0)

^ "Bohumir Bartonek". GrasstrackGB. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
^ "Tough Moore". Sunday Mirror. 28 June 1959. Retrieved 27 August 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
^ "World Team Cup Preview". Speedway Star and News, Vol 9 No.24. 3 September 1960.
^ "World Team Cup 1960-1990". Edinburgh Speedway. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
^ "HISTORY SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK". Speedway.org. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
^ Bott, Richard (1980). The Peter Collins Speedway Book No.4. Stanley Paul & Co Ltd. p. 100. ISBN 0-09-141751-1.

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