Ondrej_Smetana_(speedway_rider)

Ondřej Smetana (speedway rider)

Ondřej Smetana (speedway rider)

Czech speedway rider

Ondřej Smetana (born 2 May 1995) is a motorcycle speedway rider from the Czech Republic [1][2][3][4]

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Career

As a 16-year-old he won a bronze medal at the 2011 Speedway Youth World Championship. The following year he reached the final of the 2012 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship and in 2014 won a bronze medal at the Team Junior European Championship.

He reached the final of the 2016 Speedway Under-21 World Championship. He won the 2019 edition of the French Individual Speedway Championship.[5]

Smetana signed for Newcastle Diamonds for the 2020 season but due to the COVID-19 pandemic he was unable to make his British leagues debut.[6]

In 2021, he signed for Poole Pirates but once again did not make his British debut because of quarantine restrictions relating to COVID-19.[7]

References

  1. [1]
    "Ondřej Smetana 2021 rider index" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
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    "Ondrej Smetana". PoBandzie. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
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    "Ondřej Smetana". Speedway News Cz. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
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    "Ondřej Smetana". Zuzelend. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
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    "Individual French Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
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    "DIAMONDS SNAP UP SMETANA, SKORJA". Speedway Star. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
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    "Pirates snap up young Dane Benjamin Basso to replace Smetana". Daily Echo. Retrieved 9 June 2023.


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