Vladimír Kobranov (4 October 1927 – 25 October 2015) was an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovakian national team.
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Born | Černošice, Czechoslovakia | 4 October 1927||||||||
Died | 25 October 2015 Switzerland | (aged 88)||||||||
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He won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics and a gold medal at the 1949 world championship. In 1950 he was imprisoned with other Czech hockey players by the communist government. His career and careers of his colleagues were ended by the communist regime. In 2009 he was introduced in the Czech Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.[1][2]
References
edit- ^ "Czechoslovakia Ice Hockey at the 1948 Sankt Moritz Winter Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
- ^ Michael Bereň (26 October 2015). "Zemřel hokejista Vladimír Kobranov, mistr světa vězněný komunisty". iDNES.cz (in Czech).
External links
edit- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com