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Ondřej Smetana (born 2 May 1995) is a motorcycle speedway rider from the Czech Republic

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.

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.

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

References

1. "Ondřej Smetana 2021 rider index" (PDF). British Speedway. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
2. "Ondrej Smetana". PoBandzie. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
3. "Ondřej Smetana". Speedway News Cz. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
4. "Ondřej Smetana". Zuzelend. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
5. "Individual French Championship". Historia Sportu Zuzlowego. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
6. "DIAMONDS SNAP UP SMETANA, SKORJA". Speedway Star. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
7. "Poole Pirates moving on from Ondrej Smetana". Bournemouth Daily Echo. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
8. "Pirates snap up young Dane Benjamin Basso to replace Smetana". Daily Echo. Retrieved 9 June 2023.

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