Ladislav Trpkoš (17 January 1915 in
Vysoké Mýto
Vysoké Mýto (; german: Hohenmaut, also ''Hohenmauth'') is a town in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 12,000 inhabitants. Its town square is the largest example of its type in the country. ...
– 30 November 2004)
[František Kolář ''Encyklopedie olympioniků. Čeští a českoslovenští sportovci na olympijských hrách'', ed. Euromedia Group, Prague 2021, p. 423] was a
Czech
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basketball
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player. He was voted to the
Czechoslovakian 20th Century Team in 2001.
National team career
Trpkoš competed with the senior
Czechoslovakian national team at the
1936 Summer Olympics. With Czechoslovakia, he won the gold medal at the
1946 EuroBasket, and the silver medal at the
1947 EuroBasket. He also competed with Czechoslovakia at the
1948 Summer Olympics
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References
External links
FIBA Profile
1915 births
2004 deaths
Czechoslovak men's basketball players
Czech men's basketball players
Olympic basketball players for Czechoslovakia
Basketball players at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 1948 Summer Olympics
FIBA EuroBasket-winning players
People from Vysoké Mýto
Sportspeople from the Pardubice Region
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