Zdeněk Jarkovský (3 October 1918 in

Nový Bydžov Nový Bydžov (; ) is a town in Hradec Králové District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 7,200 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Mon ...

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– 8 November 1948 in La Manche) was an

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goaltender for the

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national team. He won a silver medal at the

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

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