Evžen Rošický (15 October 1914

Olomouc Olomouc (, , ; german: Olmütz; pl, Ołomuniec ; la, Olomucium or ''Iuliomontium'') is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 99,000 inhabitants, and its larger urban zone has a population of about 384,000 inhabitants (2019). Located on th ...

– 25 June 1942

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

) was a

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and

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. Prague's

Stadion Evžena Rošického Stadion Evžena Rošického, also known simply as Strahov, is a multi-purpose stadium in Strahov, Prague in the Czech Republic. It hosted the 1978 European Athletics Championships and for many years this was the venue for main annual internatio ...

is named after him. During

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, he and his father Jaroslav Rošický were part of the anti-

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resistance group ''Captain Nemo''. Evžen Rošický and his father were arrested on 18 June 1942, and one week later, on 25 June 1942, they were both executed at the

Kobylisy shooting range Kobylisy Shooting Range () is a former military shooting range located in Kobylisy, a northern suburb of Prague, Czech Republic. The shooting range was established in 1889–1891, on a site that was at the time far outside the city, as a train ...

in Prague.

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1914 births 1942 deaths Sportspeople from Olomouc People from the Margraviate of Moravia Czech journalists Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Resistance members killed by Nazi Germany Olympic athletes of Czechoslovakia People executed at Kobylisy shooting range 20th-century journalists Czechoslovak civilians killed in World War II {{europe-journalist-stub