Vilibald Šťovík (original) (raw)

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Czechoslovak ice hockey player

Vilibald Šťovík

Personal information
Born (1917-10-09)9 October 1917Prague, Austria-Hungary
Died 8 November 1948(1948-11-08) (aged 31)La Manche
Medal record Men's Ice Hockey Silver medal – second place 1948 St. Moritz Team

Vilibald Šťovík (9 October 1917 in Prague, Austria-Hungary – 8 November 1948 in La Manche) was an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovakian national team. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics.[1]

He died when in the airplane disaster, when the airplane with Czechoslovakia ice hockey national team fell down to the English Channel on the flight from Paris to London.

  1. ^ Sports Reference