Miloslav Pokorný

Miloslav Pokorný
Personal information
Born(1926-10-05)5 October 1926
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Died8 November 1948(1948-11-08) (aged 22)
La Manche
Medal record
Men's Ice Hockey
Silver medal – second place 1948 St. Moritz Team

Miloslav Pokorný (5 October 1926 in Prague, Czechoslovakia – 8 November 1948 in La Manche) was an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovak 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.

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