Antonín Bartoň (12 December 1908 – 9 September 1982) was a

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

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who competed in the 1930s. He won two silver medals at the

1933 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1933 took place on 8–12 February 1933 in Innsbruck, Austria. This event would also debut the 4 x 10 km relay. Men's cross country 18 km 10 February 1933 50 km 12 February 1933 4 × 10 km ...

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Biography

Born in

Vysoké nad Jizerou Vysoké nad Jizerou () is a town in Semily District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,300 inhabitants. Administrative division Vysoké nad Jizerou consists of five municipal parts (in brackets population according to the ...

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, in 1908, Bartoň was the flag bearer for Czechoslovakia at the

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. He finished 6th in the Nordic combined event. He finished also 16th in the shorter cross-country skiing event, 10th in the 50 kilometre event and 21st in the ski jumping competition. 1933 saw Bartoň compete at the

, where he won silver medals in two events: the combined race and the relay. His skiing career finished before the 1936 Olympics due to a leg fracture sustained from a cycling accident. He subsequently went into the production of

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s. Bartoň died in 1982 in

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World Championship results
* 1908 births 1982 deaths People from Vysoké nad Jizerou Czech male cross-country skiers Czech male Nordic combined skiers Czechoslovak male cross-country skiers Czechoslovak male Nordic combined skiers Olympic cross-country skiers for Czechoslovakia Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Czechoslovakia Olympic ski jumpers for Czechoslovakia Cross-country skiers at the 1932 Winter Olympics Nordic combined skiers at the 1932 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 1932 Winter Olympics FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in Nordic combined Skiers from the Liberec Region {{CzechRepublic-crosscountry-skiing-bio-stub