Automotoklub Zlatá Přilba Pardubice is a Czech

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

team based in

Pardubice Pardubice (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 92,000 inhabitants. It is the capital city of the Pardubice Region and lies on the Elbe River. The historic centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Repub ...

, Czech Republic. The club take its name Zlatá Přilba after the prestigious competition known as the

Golden Helmet of Pardubice The Golden Helmet of Pardubice (Czech: Zlatá přilba) is a motorcycle speedway competition hosted annually in Pardubice, the Czech Republic. It is the oldest motorcycle speedway race in Europe and is considered prestigious. History The race w ...

History

The team race at the Svítkov Stadium and were four-times champions of the former Czechoslovakia. The team started life known as KAMK Pardubice before taking the Golden Helmet name. However, in 1983 the stadium became a centre for the

Svazarm Svazarm or Union for Cooperation with the Army (Czech: Svaz pro spolupráci s armádou / Svazarm, Slovak: Zväz pre spoluprácu s armádou / Zväzarm) was, in Communist Czechoslovakia, the largest "paramilitary" organisation, although many of th ...

and the site was known as a centre of professional sports. The team raced as SVS (Středisko vrcholového sportu) Pardubice from 1983 to 1990 before reverting to their chosen name. Pardubice and Rudá Hvězda Praha (Red Star Prague) dominated Czechoslovak speedway from 1978 until the

Dissolution of Czechoslovakia The dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took effect on December 31, 1992, was the Self-determination, self-determined Partition (politics), partition of the federal republic of Fifth Czechoslovak Republic, Czechoslovakia into the independent ...

. AMK Zlatá Přilba Pardubice continued to compete in the Extraliga and became eleven-times champions of the Czech Republic at the end of 2023.

References

Speedway teams in the Czech Republic Pardubice Sports clubs and teams established in 1956 1963 establishments in Czechoslovakia {{speedway-stub