Miloslav Pokorný (5 October 1926 in

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– 8 November 1948 in La Manche) was an

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player for the

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national team. He won a silver medal at the

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.Sports Reference
/ref> He died when in the airplane disaster, when the airplane with Czechoslovakia ice hockey national team fell down to the English Channel on the flight from Paris to London.

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