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Anton Tkáč

1951 - 2022

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Anton Tkáč (30 March 1951 – 22 December 2022) was a Slovak track cyclist who claimed the gold medal for Czechoslovakia in the men's Match Sprint event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada when in the final he defeated eight-time World Champion Frenchman Daniel Morelon. In this discipline he also won two World titles, in 1974 in Montreal and in 1978 in Munich, Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anton Tkáč is the 150th most popular cyclist (down from 140th in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 162nd in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Cyclist.

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Anton Tkáč ranks 150 out of 1,613Before her are Gerrie Knetemann, Peter Post, Delio Rodríguez, Tadej Pogačar, Carlo Oriani, and Primož Roglič. After her are Carlo Galetti, Stephen Roche, Jeannie Longo, Claude Criquielion, Gerrit Voorting, and Axel Schandorff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Anton Tkáč ranks 323Before her are Gerrie Knetemann, Charles Shyer, Mike Thompson, Ildikó Schwarczenberger, David Almond, and Ramón Puerta. After her are Marie-Anne Chazel, Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Nitish Kumar, Anna Dymna, Shoshana Zuboff, and Claudio Baglioni. Among people deceased in 2022, Anton Tkáč ranks 336Before her are Herbert W. Franke, John Steiner, Zhang Jie, Fernando Chalana, Stien Kaiser, and Martin Bangemann. After her are Lodewijk van den Berg, Yoshishige Yoshida, Lidiya Alfeyeva, Herman Daly, Yelizaveta Dementyeva, and Keto Losaberidze.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Anton Tkáč ranks 158 out of 418Before her are Jozef Móder (1947), Jozef Moravčík (1945), Imrich Stacho (1931), Andrej Sládkovič (1820), Margita Figuli (1909), and Vladimir Oravsky (1947). After her are Michal Vičan (1925), Ľubomír Luhový (1967), Lajos Kassák (1887), Anton Malatinský (1920), Jozef Barmoš (1954), and Ladislav Kuna (1947).

Among CYCLISTS In Slovakia

Among cyclists born in Slovakia, Anton Tkáč ranks 1After her are Peter Sagan (1990), Ján Svorada (1968), Peter Velits (1985), Juraj Sagan (1988), and Martin Velits (1985).