Name Miloslav Pokorny | Role Olympic athlete | |
Born October 5, 1926 ( 1926-10-05 ) Prague, Czechoslovakia Died November 8, 1948, English Channel | ||
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.
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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