Lubos Tomicek
(1934-1968)
Lubos started his career
in 1956 in motocross, and the next year he started on a speedway bike. He
rode his whole career on a Jawa machine.
His results were very good and he was climbing well up the speedway ladder.
He became the top rider in Czech. For eight years he won almost everything
in his home country, in the league with his club Rudá Hvezda Prag
and in the individual championship (5 times Czech champion).
His results were good throughout the world too. He started riding in some
meetings in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Sweden, Poland, USSR and others.
From these meetings, he gained respect as a good rider. At this time this
was very important to achieve gains in the USSR, as speedway was big in that
country at the time.
He got a contract to ride in the British league for Bristol, and in 1965
he rode in the Individual world final at Wembley (16th place). Between 1960-1968
he was captain of our Czech team in the World Championship (1960 - 3rd place).
In his short career he achieved a lot. Throughout his career he had only
small injuries, only a broken arm. His dream was to win the Golden helmet
in Pardubice. In 1968, in the final heat of this meeting, he beat all riders
such as Ivan Mauger, Barry Briggs. But from first place, he had a bad crash
and the last rider ran into Luboš. He died from this injury on October
20th 1968.
Since then there is a regular meeting at Prague stadium Markéta in
his memory - Memorial Luboše Tomícka. Many of the worlds best
riders compete in this meeting such as Greg Hancock, Lee Richardson, Jason
Crump & Lukas Dryml. In 2003 it was won by Bo Brhel.
Continental Quarter-Final
1958 - Slaný 11 points 3rd place
1959 - Liberec 12 points 2nd place
1961 - Liberec 6 points 10th place
1962 - Wien 14 points 1st place
1963 - Linz 14 points 1st place
1965 - Miskolc 14 points 1st place
1966 - Meissen 8th place
1967 - Abensberg 10 points 6th place
1968 - Abensberg 12 points 3rd place
Continental Semi-Final
1958 - Vienna 10 points 5th place
1959 - Slaný 13 points 1st place
1960 - Munich 12 points 4th place
1962 - Warsawa 11 points 5th place
1963 - Abensberg 9 points 5th place
1965 - Abensberg 11 points 5th place
1966 - Rybnik 3 points 14th place
1967 - Slaný 8 points 9th place
1968 - Slaný 15 points 1st place
Continental Final
1958 - Oberhausen 9 points 4th place
1959 - Munich 7 points 8th place
1960 - Vienna 8 points 9th place
1962 - Wroclaw 12 points 3rd place
1963 - Wroclaw 9 points 5th place
1965 - Wroclaw 10 points 5th place
1967 - Kempten 9 points 7th place
1968 - Ufa 1 point 16th place
European Final
1958 - Warsawa 5 points 11th place
1959 - Goteborg 6 points 11th place
1962 - Oslo 3 points 13th place
1963 - Goteborg 5 points 15th place
1965 - Slaný 7 points 9th place
1967 - Wroclaw 2 points 16th place
World Final
1965 - Wembley 2 points 16th place
Team World Championship Semi Final
1960 - 1st place
1961 - 1st place
1962 - 1st place
1963 - 1st place
1965 - 3rd place
1966 - 3rd place
1967 - 3rd place
1968 - 2nd place
Team World Championship Final
1960 - 3rd place
1961 - 4th place
1962 - 4th place
1963 - 2nd place
1968 - 4th place
Other Achievements
Czech Individual Champion - 1961
Czech Champion - 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
Czech Championship - 1960, 1966, 1967, 1968
Slovenia Golden Helmet Zarnovice - 1963 - 1st place
Big Prizes of Prague
1961 - 1st place
1962 - 1st place
1963 - 1st place
1964 - 1st place
1966 - 1st place
1967 - 1st place
1968 - 1st place
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