Ladislav Trpkoš (17 January 1915 in
Vysoké Mýto
Vysoké Mýto (; , also ''Hohenmauth'') is a town in Ústí nad Orlicí District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 13,000 inhabitants. Its town square is the largest example of its type in the country. The historic town ...
– 30 November 2004)
[František Kolář ''Encyklopedie olympioniků. Čeští a českoslovenští sportovci na olympijských hrách'', ed. Euromedia Group, Prague 2021, p. 423] was a
Czech
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basketball
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player. He was voted to the
Czechoslovak 20th Century Team in 2001.
National team career
Trpkoš competed with the senior
Czechoslovak national team at the
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...
. With Czechoslovakia, he won the gold medal at the
1946 EuroBasket, and the silver medal at the
1947 EuroBasket. He also competed with Czechoslovakia at the
1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus cau ...
.
References
External links
FIBA Profile
1915 births
2004 deaths
Czechoslovak men's basketball players
Czech men's basketball players
Olympic basketball players for Czechoslovakia
Basketball players at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 1948 Summer Olympics
FIBA EuroBasket–winning players
Sportspeople from Vysoké Mýto
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