Miloslav Pokorný (5 October 1926 in
Prague
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,
Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
, image_p1 ...
– 8 November 1948 in
La Manche) was an
ice hockey
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player for the
Czechoslovak
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*A demonym or adjective pertaining to Czechoslovakia (1918–93)
**First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–38)
**Second Czechoslovak Republic (1938–39)
**Third Czechoslovak Republic (1948–60)
**Fourth Czechoslovak Repub ...
national team. He won a silver medal at the
1948 Winter Olympics
The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (german: V. Olympische Winterspiele; french: Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; it, V Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz ...
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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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1926 births
1948 deaths
Ice hockey players at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Olympic ice hockey players of Czechoslovakia
Olympic medalists in ice hockey
Olympic silver medalists for Czechoslovakia
Ice hockey people from Prague
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Europe
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in international waters
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1948
Czech ice hockey defencemen
Czechoslovak ice hockey defencemen
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