Bohumil Tomášek (21 June 1936 – 2 November 2019) was a Czech

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player and

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. He was voted to the Czechoslovak 20th Century Team in 2001.

Playing career

Club career

Tomášek won two Czechoslovak League championships, in the years 1960 and 1969. He also won the European-wide secondary level

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championship, in the 1968–69 season. He was named to the

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in 1967. He was also the German League's top scorer, in the 1970–71 season.

National team career

With the senior Czechoslovak national team, Tomášek competed in the men's tournament at the

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. With Czechoslovakia, he also won the silver medal at the

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, and the silver medal at the 1967 EuroBasket.

Coaching career

Tomášek was a

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with the German League club SSV Hagen, from 1970 to 1972.

References

External links

FIBA Profile
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