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Czechoslovak national ice hockey team

Czechoslovakia
Shirt badge/Association crest
Most games Jiří Holík (319)
Top scorer Josef Maleček (216)
Most points Josef Maleček (285)
First international
 Canada 15–0 Czechoslovakia 
(Antwerp, Belgium; 24 April 1920)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances 52 (first in 1930)
Best result Gold medal with cup.svg Gold: 6 (1947, 1949, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1985)
Silver medal.svg Silver: 10 (1961, 1965, 1966, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983)
Bronze medal.svg Bronze: 14 (1933, 1938, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1981, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992)
Olympics
Appearances 16 (first in 1920)
Medals Silver medal.svg Silver: 4 (1948, 1968, 1976, 1984)
Bronze medal.svg Bronze: 4 (1920, 1964, 1972, 1992)
Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team
Medal record
Men's ice hockey
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1984 Sarajevo Ice hockey
Silver medal – second place 1976 Innsbruck Ice hockey
Silver medal – second place 1968 Grenoble Ice hockey
Silver medal – second place 1948 St. Moritz Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Albertville Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1972 Sapporo Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1964 Innsbruck Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1920 Antwerp Ice hockey
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1985 Prague Ice hockey
Gold medal – first place 1977 Vienna Ice hockey
Gold medal – first place 1976 Katowice Ice hockey
Gold medal – first place 1972 Prague Ice hockey
Gold medal – first place 1949 Stockholm Ice hockey
Gold medal – first place 1947 Prague Ice hockey
Silver medal – second place 1983 West Germany Ice hockey
Silver medal – second place 1982 Finland Ice hockey
Silver medal – second place 1979 Moscow Ice hockey
Silver medal – second place 1978 Prague Ice hockey
Silver medal – second place 1975 West Germany Ice hockey
Silver medal – second place 1974 Helsinki Ice hockey
Silver medal – second place 1971 Switzerland Ice hockey
Silver medal – second place 1966 Ljubljana Ice hockey
Silver medal – second place 1965 Tampere Ice hockey
Silver medal – second place 1961 Switzerland Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Czechoslovakia Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1990 Switzerland Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1989 Sweden Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1987 Vienna Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1981 Gothenburg Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1973 Moscow Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1970 Stockholm Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1969 Stockholm Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1963 Stockholm Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1959 Czechoslovakia Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1957 Moscow Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1955 West Germany Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1938 Prague Ice hockey
Bronze medal – third place 1933 Prague Ice hockey

The Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team was one of the world's premiere teams for the duration of its existence.

The successor to the Bohemian national ice hockey team, which was a European power prior to World War I, the Czechoslovak national team first appeared at the 1920 Summer Olympics, two years after the creation of the state. In the 1940s, they established themselves as the best team in Europe, becoming the first team from the continent to win two World Championships (1947 and 1949). After the arrival of the Soviet Union on the international hockey scene in the 1950s, the Czechoslovaks regularly fought Sweden and Canada for silver and bronze medals, but sometimes beat the Soviets. In total, they won the gold medal six times.

Due to the split of the country Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the team was disbanded and replaced in 1993 with the Czech and the Slovak national teams. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) recognized the Czech national team as a successor of Czechoslovakia national team and kept it in the top group, and the Slovak national team was demoted to Pool C (Slovakia got into the Top Division very early in 1996).


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