Karel Paulus (3 January 1933 – 31 October 2003) was a

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volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

player who competed for

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in the

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho ...

. He was born in Dolní Brusnice,

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and died in

Bílá Třemešná Bílá Třemešná (german: Weiß Tremeschna) is a municipality and village in Trutnov District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. H ...

. In 1964 he was part of the Czechoslovak team which won the silver medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all nine matches.

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1933 births 2003 deaths Czech men's volleyball players Czechoslovak men's volleyball players Olympic volleyball players for Czechoslovakia Volleyball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Czechoslovakia Olympic medalists in volleyball Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics {{CzechRepublic-volleyball-bio-stub