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[1][2] in Montreal, Quebec, Canada when in the final he defeated eight-time World Champion Frenchman Daniel Morelon.

The 1 km time trial came by accident when, on a borrowed bike, he won the race in the recruitment city suburb.

Soon he was recruited by the Slovan Bratislava cycling club where he rode and trained on the track in the 1 km time trial discipline.

Two weeks before the national team's departure to the Olympics, Tkac suffered another more serious injury, heavily bruising his hip after falling at high speed during a practice run and as a consequence he finished in 13th place in the 1 km time trial.

After the Munich Olympic Games he changed his discipline from "mindless" pedaling of 1 km to the more creative "match sprint", which always lured him far more for ultimate speed.

His lost battles, with match sprint all time legend, Daniel Morelon of France at the 1973 World Championship in San Sebastian, Spain, suggested that his choice was a very good one.

In this heat Tkac fully attacked way ahead at approximately 250 meters to go with his explosive speed in the long and rapid spurt and didn't give Morelon any chance to retaliate.

Daniel Morelon officially said goodbye to his active career at the Montreal Olympics where he wanted to complete his third gold medal, but he acknowledged the sports quality of his opponent.

At the 1978 World Championship in Munich, Germany, he dueled with the upcoming generation of supposedly unbeatable sprint racers: Hesslich, Drescher, and Raasch of East-Germany.

During his coaching career, he brought his national sprinter cyclist team to win the World Championship five times.