Jiří Háva

Jiří Háva (born December 18, 1944 in Třešť ) is a former Czech cyclist and national champion in cycling .

Athletic career

Háva was a successful stage driver. At the age of 20, Háva won the domestic Lidice Tour in 1964 and, after the Tour of Slovakia (in which he was third in the overall classification), he also contested the Tour de l'Avenir in 1964. A year later he won the Tour of Slovakia (as well as later 1971) and also won the Tour of Bulgaria with two stage successes . In 1965 he took part in the International Peace Tour for the first time , which he completed four times. His best result was fourth place in 1970 . Háva won the Czech championship in road races in 1966. At the UCI road world championships in 1966 at the Nürburgring , he finished 18th in the amateurs road race .

In 1967 he was second in the Tour of Slovakia and finished the Tour de l'Avenir in 15th place. Again he won a stage in Bulgaria. He was unable to contest the entire 1969 season due to a serious fall and its consequences. At the end of the 1971 season, he won the longest amateur race in Europe, Prague-Karlovy Vary-Prague . Before that, won a stage of the Tour de l'Avenir, finished third on the tour in France and had to retire from the GDR tour in 1971 . In 1972 he was nominated for the Summer Olympics in Munich . There he started in the individual race and was classified as 41st. In spring he finished second on the Algeria tour . In the following year he achieved his best result in the British Milk Race with 10th place , which he had already contested several times before. In the championship races in the team time trial, which his club won several times, Háva was never used due to his small body size of 166 centimeters. After his competitive sports career, he remained active as a senior driver.

Web links

Jiří Háva in the Radsportseiten.net database

Jiří Háva in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 239 .
^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 35/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 10 .
^ ^A ^b Robert Bakalář, Jaroslav Cihlar, Jiří Černý: Zlatá kniha cyclistiky . Olympia, Prague 1984, p. 180 (Czech).
^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 34/1971 . Berlin 1971, p. 1 .
↑ Jiří Háva. Retrieved December 20, 2019 (Czech).

personal data
SURNAME	Jiri Háva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 18, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Třešť

[1] Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 239 .

[2] Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 35/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 10 .

[:0-3] A ^b Robert Bakalář, Jaroslav Cihlar, Jiří Černý: Zlatá kniha cyclistiky . Olympia, Prague 1984, p. 180 (Czech).

[4] German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 34/1971 . Berlin 1971, p. 1 .

[5] Jiří Háva. Retrieved December 20, 2019 (Czech).