Marian Jirout (born 21 July 1976 in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia)speedway.com.pl/riders/marian-jirout is a former motorcycle speedway from the Czech Republic. He earned 5 international caps for the Czech Republic national speedway team.
Career Jirout first rode in the British leagues in 1995 for Peterborough Panthers.
Jirout rode in the 1999 Speedway Grand Prix. In Britain, he raced with the Peterborough Panthers for five seasons from 1995 to 2001.
Following a car accident in January 2003, Jirout was almost left paralysed. However, he recovered well enough to start riding again for Newcastle Diamonds during the 2004 season.
In October 2007, during the Zlatá přilba race in Pardubice, Jirout broke three vertebrae in a fall and decided to end career of rider.2007 newspaper interview after Jirout decided to stop racing (in Czech)
Family Jirout's father Jiří (1953–2000), also a speedway rider, won a silver medal in the 1979 Team Ice Racing World Championship.http://www.vcm-sbirky.cz/zlataprilba/historie_4.html (in Czech)
Results Speedway Grand Prix
World Championships Team World Championship (Speedway World Team Cup and Speedway World Cup) 1998 - Vojens - 5th place (5 points) 2000 - 3rd place in Semi-Final A 2001 - - 7th place (4th place in Race-off)
European Championships European Club Champions' Cup 2000 - Piła - 4th place (3 points) 2002 - Pardubice - Runner-up (6 points)
See also Czech Republic national speedway team List of Speedway Grand Prix riders
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