Miloslav Verner
{{Short description|Czech speedway rider (1938–2018)}}
{{Infobox Speedway rider
| name = Miloslav Verner
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| nationality = Czech
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1938|6|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = Czechoslovakia
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| death_place = {{Death date and age|2018|12|18|1938|6|25|df=y}}
| career1 = Czechoslovakia
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| indivyear1 = 1970
| indivhonour1 = World Longtrack finalist
| indivyear2 = 1971
| indivhonour2 = Czechoslovakian Championship bronze medal
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| teamyear1 = 1970
| teamhonour1 = World Team Cup finalist
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Miloslav Verner also known as Mila Verner (1938–2018) was a motorcycle speedway rider from Czechoslovakia.{{cite web |url=https://grasstrackgb.co.uk/miroslav-verner/|title=Miroslav Verner|website=GrasstrackGB|access-date=14 August 2021}}{{cite web |url=http://hackneyspeedway.com/Welcome-to-1968-July-26th-onwards|title=Welcome to 1968|website=Hackney Speedway|access-date=14 August 2021}}
Speedway career
Like many Czech riders of the time, the Czechsolovak authorities rarely allowed riders to compete for British league teams but they did allow club sides such as Prague to tour the United Kingdom, which allowed Verner to race in Britain in 1967{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002507/19670630/380/0015 |title=Czechoslovakian Team for Long Eaton |website=Long Eaton Advertiser |date=23 March 1967 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 August 2024}}{{cite news |title=Speedway Czechs meet King's Lynn |work=Peterborough Evening Telegraph |date=4 August 1967 |access-date=17 August 2024|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005377/19670804/327/0018 | via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }} and again in 1971.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003535/19710806/352/0020 |title=Speedway Stars set to face the Young Czechs |website=Kentish Express |date=6 August 1971 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=27 August 2024}}
Verner won the bronze medal in the 1971 Czechoslovakian Individual Speedway Championship.{{cite web |url=https://speedwaystats.wordpress.com/nationals/australia/czech-republic/|title=Czech champions|website=Speedway Stats|access-date=2 July 2021}} He also reached the final of the Individual Speedway Long Track World Championship in 1970.{{cite web|url=https://grasstrackgb.co.uk/world-longtrack-1970-final/|title=World Longtrack World Champions|publisher=Grasstrack GB|access-date=14 August 2021}}{{cite web|url=http://www.speedway.org/history/70.htm#1970|title=SPEEDWAY and LONGTRACK|publisher=Speedway.org|access-date=14 August 2021}}
He was also part of the Czechoslovakian team that reached the final of the 1970 Speedway World Team Cup.{{cite web|url=http://edinburghspeedway.blogspot.com/2014/02/world-team-cup-1960-1990.html|title=World Team Cup 1960-1990|website=Edinburgh Speedway|access-date=14 August 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/7462/1970-world-team-cup-final|title=Speedway riders, history and results|website=wwosbackup|access-date=14 August 2021}}
On 24 March 1973, Verner set a new track record at the Letňa Avia, in Čakovice of 1:13.2.{{cite web |url=https://speedwayhanzz.estranky.cz/clanky/amk-cakovice-speedway/ |title=History before the establishment of AMK Čakovice | website=Speedway Hanzz |access-date=29 March 2024}}
World Final appearances
=World Team Cup=
- 1970 - {{Flagicon|ENG}} London, Wembley Stadium (with Zdeněk Majstr / Jiří Štancl / Václav Verner / Jan Holub) - 4th - 3pts (0)
=World Longtrack Championship=
Family
His nephews Jan Verner and Václav Verner and his grandson Filip Šitera were also international speedway riders.{{cite web |url=https://wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/848/jan-verner|title=Speedway riders, history and results|website=wwosbackup|access-date=10 July 2021}}
References
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Category:Czech speedway riders
Category:Czechoslovak speedway riders
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