Karel Holý (3 February 1956 – 23 November 2024) was a Czech professional

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. Holý played the majority of his career with

HC Sparta Praha Hockey Club Sparta Praha, commonly known as HC Sparta Prague, is a Prague-based Czech professional ice hockey team playing in the Czech Extraliga. The club has won four Czech championships (most recently in 2007) and four Czechoslovak champio ...

, from 1974 to 1978 and again from 1980 to 1986. He also played for

HC Dukla Jihlava HC Dukla Jihlava, founded in 1956, is an ice hockey team in the Czech Republic. It won the Czechoslovak Extraliga title 12 times: six consecutive championships beginning in 1967, then in 1974, four consecutive championships beginning in 1982, an ...

as well as in

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for

ESV Kaufbeuren ESV Kaufbeuren (ESVK) is a professional ice hockey team based in Kaufbeuren, Germany. They currently play in the DEL2 DEL2 (also known as Deutsche Eishockey Liga 2 or DEL II) is the second tier ice hockey league in Germany Germany, of ...

and in

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's II-divisioona for IPK. Holý was also a member of the Czechoslovakia national team. He competed in the men's tournament at the

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. Holý died in

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on 23 November 2024, at the age of 68.

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