AK Slaný

{{Short description|Czech motorcycle speedway team}}

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| clubname = AK Slaný

| track = Slaný Speedway Stadium

| country = Czech Republic

| image = Autoklub v ACR Slany logo.png

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| league = Czech Extraliga

| website = {{URL|https://speedwayslany.wbs.cz/}}

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| tracksize = 382 metres

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| honour1 = Extraliga champion (x2)

| year1 = 2005, 2006

| honour2 = Czechoslovak league champion (x1)

| year2 = 1969

| honour3 = Extraliga runner-up (x7)

| year3 = 1993, 2002–2004, 2019, 2022–2023

| honour4 = Czechoslovak league runner-up (x7)

| year4 = 1970–1973, 1975–1977

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Autoklub v AČR Slaný is a Czech motorcycle speedway team based in Slaný, Czech Republic. The team race at the Slaný Speedway Stadium.

History

The training of club riders first took place in 1957 and the team first competed in the Czechoslovak Team Speedway Championship during 1967, finishing second in group A of the 1.liga.{{cite web |url=http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/dmczechoslowacji.php |title=Czechoslovakian Team Championship |website=Historia Sportu Zuzlowego |access-date=23 March 2024}}

Club rider Jan Holub I won the Czechoslovak Individual Speedway Championship in 1969{{cite web |url=http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/indmczechoslowacji.php|title=Individual Czechoslovakian Championship |website=Historia Sportu Zuzlowego|access-date=23 March 2024}} and Jan Klokočka rode for the club for 18 years.{{cite web |url=https://speedwayslany.wbs.cz/ |title=The history of the flat track in Slané |website=Speedway Slany |access-date=23 March 2024}}

The team were champions of the former Czechoslovakia in 1969 and competed as Bateria Slaný (due to a battery company sponsorship) until 1986. They took on the name of Výstavba dolu Slaný (due to a mining construction company sponsorship) several years before the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia.{{cite web |url=http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/dmczechoslowacji.php |title=Czechoslovakian Team Championship |website=Historia Sportu Zuzlowego |access-date=23 March 2024}}

Zdeněk Tesař won the Czech Republic Individual Speedway Championship as a Slaný rider, in 1995.

Continuing as AK Slaný the team competed in the Czech Republic Team Speedway Championship and won the Extraliga in 2005 and 2006.{{cite web |url=http://speedwayfansite.com/ligi/czeskaliga.html |title=Czech Republic & Czechoslovakia Team Championship |website=Speedway Fansite |access-date=23 March 2024}} The team were sponsored by mobile phone company 3ton from 2015 to 2019.

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