Slaný Speedway Stadium () is a speedway track in

Slaný Slaný (; ) is a town in Kladno District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 17,000 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zones, ur ...

, Czech Republic. The track is located on the Netovická road in the southeastern area of the town. The stadium hosts the speedway team

AK Slaný Autoklub v AČR Slaný is a Czech motorcycle speedway team based in Slaný, Czech Republic. The team race at the Slaný Speedway Stadium. History The training of club riders first took place in 1957 and the team first competed in the Czecho ...

History

The stadium was constructed throughout 1948 and 1949 and opened on 13 August 1950. Major reconstructions took place in 1958 and 1974, the latter when FIM regulations required a cinder/shale track. In-between the stadium hosted arguably what was its most significant event, the final of the

1962 Speedway World Team Cup 1962 Speedway World Team Cup was the third edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions. The final took place in Slaný, Czechoslovakia. The World Champion title was won by Sweden (36 pts) who beat Great B ...

, which attracted a crowd of 35,000. Further major events took place at the track when the final of the

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was held in 1981 and 1988 respectively. In 1986, the width of the track increased allowing six riders to race and in 1988 a grandstand opened which featured VIP areas and seating for 1,000 spectators. The

2002 Speedway Under-21 World Championship The 2002 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship was the 26th edition of the World motorcycle speedway Under-21 Championships. The final was won by Lukáš Dryml of the Czech Republic. World final *7 September 2002 * Slaný Speedway, S ...

was hosted at the stadium and was won by Czech rider

Lukáš Dryml Lukáš Dryml (born 16 April 1981 in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia) is a former international motorcycle speedway rider from the Czech Republic. He earned 20 international caps for the Czech Republic national speedway team and represented his nati ...

and in 2003

Krzysztof Kasprzak Krzysztof Kasprzak (; born 18 July 1984 in Leszno, Poland) is a Polish international motorcycle speedway rider, who became World Under-21 Champion in 2005 and won the silver medal during the 2014 Speedway Grand Prix. He also won five World te ...

won the

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. The track record was broken by

Robert Kościecha Robert Kościecha (born 22 November 1977 in Toruń, Poland) is a former motorcycle speedway rider from Poland. Career Kościecha won 2005 European Pairs Speedway Champion title. In 2005, he rode in several fixtures for Poole Pirates. Robert ...

, who recorded 67.94 seconds on 23 June 2010.

References

Buildings and structures in Slaný Speedway venues in the Czech Republic {{motorcycle-speedway-stub