| Luboš Tomíček Sr. | |
| Nationality: | Czech |
| Birth Date: | 16 August 1934 |
| Birth Place: | Czechoslovakia |
| Death Date: | 21 October 1968 (aged 34) |
| Death Place: | Pardubice, Czechoslovakia |
| Career1: | Czechoslovakia |
| Career2: | Rudá Hvězda Praha |
| Years2: | 1958-1968 |
| Indivyear1: | 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 |
| Indivhonour1: | Czechoslovak champion |
| Indivyear2: | 1964 |
| Indivhonour2: | Speedway World Championship finalist |
Luboš Tomíček, Sr. (1934-1968) was an international speedway rider from Czechoslovakia.[1]
Tomíček reached the final of the Speedway World Championship in the 1965 Individual Speedway World Championship.[2] He was also the captain of the Czechoslovakian team[3] and champion of Czechoslovakia five times from 1961 until 1965 after winning the Czechoslovakian Championship.[4] [5]
In 1967, he was captained the Prague team that toured the United Kingdom.[6]
During the 1968 Golden Helmet of Pardubice he was killed in an accident after falling directly under the wheels of the speedway rider behind him. An annual memorial event has been held in his memory since.[7]
His grandson Luboš Tomíček Jr. (born 1986) was also an international speedway rider.[9]
Rider deaths in motorcycle speedway