Vilibald Šťovík

Vilibald Šťovík
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Born (1917-10-09)October 9, 1917
Prague, Austria-Hungary
Died November 8, 1948(1948-11-08) (aged 31)
La Manche

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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