Antonín Šváb Sr. (12 June 1932 – 21 November 2014) was an international speedway rider from Czechoslovakia.
Speedway career
Antonín Šváb Sr. was an Individual Ice Speedway World Championship world champion winning the 1970 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship.
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 Šváb to race in Britain in 1967. In 1968 he returned to tour Britain, where he starred alongside Antonín Kasper Sr..
He died in 2014.
World final appearances
Individual Ice World Championship
- 1966 - 2 rounds - 3rd - 39pts
- 1967 - 3 rounds - 4th - 43pts
- 1968 - 2 rounds - 5th - 44pts
- 1969 - Inzell - 4th - 12pts
- 1970 - Nässjö - 1st - 15pts
- 1972 - Nässjö - 2nd - 14pts
- 1973 - Inzell - 10th - 13pts
World Longtrack Championship
- 1968 Mühldorf (7th) 10pts
- 1972 Mühldorf (6th) 14pts
Family
His son Antonín Šváb Jr. was also a Czech international speedway rider.
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