Vladimír Bouzek (3 December 1920 – 31 July 2006) was an

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

player who played in the

Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League The Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League was the elite ice hockey league in Czechoslovakia from 1936 until 1993, when the country split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Slovak Extraliga and Czech Extraliga formed from the split. History ...

. 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 ...

. He was inducted into the

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in 2007. He also played

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as a

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, and made three appearances for the Czechoslovakia national team between 1950 and 1951.

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* * 1920 births 2006 deaths Czech ice hockey centres Czechoslovak ice hockey centres Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team coaches Ice hockey players at the 1948 Winter Olympics IIHF Hall of Fame inductees Medalists at the 1948 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Czechoslovakia Olympic medalists in ice hockey Olympic silver medalists for Czechoslovakia Sportspeople from Třebíč Ice hockey people from the Vysočina Region Czech men's footballers Czechoslovak men's footballers Czechoslovakia men's international footballers Men's association football forwards FC Baník Ostrava players MFK Vítkovice players HC Vítkovice players SK Horácká Slavia Třebíč players {{Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub