Miloslav Pokorný
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| Born | October 5, 1926 Prague, Czechoslovakia | ||||||||
| Died | November 8, 1948 (aged 22) La Manche | ||||||||
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Miloslav Pokorný (5 October 1926 in Prague, Czechoslovakia – 8 November 1948 in La Manche) was an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovak 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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- 1926 births
- 1948 deaths
- Czech ice hockey players
- Czechoslovak ice hockey players
- Ice hockey players at the 1948 Winter Olympics
- Olympic ice hockey players of Czechoslovakia
- Olympic medalists in ice hockey
- Olympic silver medalists for Czechoslovakia
- Sportspeople from Prague
- Medalists at the 1948 Winter Olympics
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Europe
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in international waters