Name Zdenek Jarkovsky | Role Olympic athlete | |
Died November 8, 1948, English Channel | ||
Zdeněk Jarkovský (3 October 1918 in Nový Bydžov, Austria-Hungary – 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 into the English Channel on the flight from Paris to London.
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