Robert Ctvrtlik
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July 8, 1963 (age 54) Long Beach, California, U.S. |
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Robert Jan "Bob" Ctvrtlik (/stəˈvɜːrtlɪk/; born July 8, 1963 ) is an American volleyball player, Olympic gold medalist, businessman and former member of the International Olympic Committee. He is a 1985 graduate of Pepperdine University.
Bob Ctvrtlik was born in Long Beach, California to Margaret and Josef Ctvrtlik. He has two older brothers, Jeffrey and David. Their father, a native of Czechoslovakia's Moravian region, was a graduate of Charles University in Prague and knew eight languages. He was imprisoned for three months during the German occupation for refusing to serve as a translator. Josef left his country in 1948 by taking a train from Prague to Bratislava and then skiing to Austria with three friends. After 18 months in West Germany and five years in New Zealand working as a wool buyer, he moved to California in 1955 and worked as a professor at California State University, Long Beach before his death in 1983 from colon cancer. Bob Ctvrtlik graduated from Pepperdine University in 1985.
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