Marián Jirout

{{Infobox Speedway rider

| image =

| name = Marian Jirout

| nationality = Czech

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|21 July 1976}}

| birth_place = Pardubice, Czechoslovakia

| career1 = Poland

| years2 = 1998, 2000–2001

| career2 = Tarnów

| years3 = 1999

| career3 = Rawicz

| years4 = 2006–2007

| career4 = Miskolc

| career5 = Great Britain

| years6 = 1995–1997, 1999, 2001

| career6 = Peterborough

| years7 = 2002–2003

| career7 = Somerset

| years8 = 2004

| career8 = Newcastle

| years9 = 2007

| career9 = Mildenhall

}}

Marian Jirout (born 21 July 1976 in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia)[http://speedway.com.pl/riders/marian-jirout/ speedway.com.pl/riders/marian-jirout] is a former motorcycle speedway from the Czech Republic.{{cite web |url=https://speedway.com.pl/riders/marian-jirout/ |title=Marián Jirout Czechy |website=Polish Speedway Database |access-date=12 March 2023}}{{cite web |url=https://britishspeedway.co.uk/docs/Rider_Index_2008.pdf |title=2008 Rider index |website=British Speedway |access-date=12 March 2023}} He earned 5 international caps for the Czech Republic national speedway team.{{cite web |url=https://britishspeedway.co.uk/docs/Ultimate_Index_1929-2022.pdf |title=ULTIMATE RIDER INDEX, 1929-2022 |website=British Speedway |access-date=29 March 2024}}

Career

Jirout first rode in the British leagues in 1995 for Peterborough Panthers.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005114/19950302/970/0065 |title=Pride of Panthers |website=Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph |date=2 March 1995 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 August 2024}}

Jirout rode in the 1999 Speedway Grand Prix.{{cite web|url=http://www.speedway.org/history/|title=HISTORY SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK|website=Speedway.org|access-date=10 July 2021}} In Britain, he raced with the Peterborough Panthers for five seasons from 1995 to 2001.

Following a car accident in January 2003 he was almost left paralysed. However, he recovered well enough to start riding again for Newcastle Diamonds during the 2004 season.{{cite web |url=https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/other-sport/speedway-diamonds-late-reshuffle-1609403 |title=Speedway: Diamonds late reshuffle |website=Chronicle Live |access-date=8 September 2024 }}

In October 2007, during the Zlatá přilba race in Pardubice, he broke three vertebrae in a fall and decided to end career of rider.[http://speedway.com.pl/riders/marian-jirout/ 2007 newspaper interview after Jirout decided to stop racing] (in Czech)

Family

His father Jiří Jirout (1953–2000), also a speedway rider, won a silver medal in the 1979 Team Ice Racing World Championship.http://www.vcm-sbirky.cz/zlataprilba/historie_4.html (in Czech)