Jaroslav Machač
{{Short description|Czech speedway rider}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox Speedway rider
| name = Jaroslav Machač
| image =
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| nationality = Czech
| birth_date = 1926
| birth_place = Czechoslovakia
| death_date =
| death_place =
| career1 = Czechoslovakia
| career2 = Rudá Hvězda Praha
| years2 = 1958–1969
| indivyear1 = 1960
| indivhonour1 = Czechoslovakian champion
| indivyear2 = 1960, 1969
| indivhonour2 = European Longtrack Championship finalist
| teamyear1 = 1960
| teamhonour1 = Speedway World Team Cup bronze medal
}}
Jaroslav Machač (born 1926) is a former international speedway rider from Czechoslovakia.{{cite web |url=https://grasstrackgb.co.uk/jaroslav-machac/|title=Jaroslav Machac|website=GrasstrackGB|access-date=12 July 2021}}
Speedway career
Machač reached the final of the Speedway World Team Cup in the 1960 Speedway World Team Cup.{{cite news |title=Speedway |work=Daily Mirror |date=3 September 1960 |access-date=17 August 2024|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19600903/208/0019 | via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite web |url=https://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/m/motorradsport/hst/77.html |title=Motorrad (Speedway - Weltmeisterschaften- Teil 2 |website=Sport Komplett |access-date=28 August 2024}} He was champion of Czechoslovakia in 1960 after winning the Czechoslovakian Championship{{cite book|last=Oakes|first=Peter|title=1981 Speedway Yearbook|year=1981|page=78|publisher=Studio Publications (Ipswich) Ltd|isbn=0-86215-017-5}}{{cite web |url=https://speedwaystats.wordpress.com/nationals/australia/czech-republic/|title=Czech champions|website=Speedway Stats|date=31 January 2011 |access-date=12 July 2021}} and reached two European Longtrack Championship finals in 1960 and 1969.
World final appearances
=World Team Cup=
- 1960 - {{Flagicon|SWE}} Gothenburg, Ullevi (with František Richter / Luboš Tomíček Sr. / Antonín Kasper Sr. / Bohumír Bartoněk) - 3rd - 15pts (4)
=Individual Ice Speedway World Championship=
References
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Category:Czech speedway riders
Category:Czechoslovak speedway riders
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