Vilibald Šťovík
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Vilibald Šťovík (9 October 1917 in Prague, Austria-Hungary - 8 November 1948 in La Manche) was an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovakian national team. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics.[1]
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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- 1917 births
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- Olympic silver medalists for Czechoslovakia
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Europe
- Olympic medalists in ice hockey
