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Born |
Prague, Austria-Hungary |
October 9, 1917|||||||
Died | November 8, 1948 La Manche |
(aged 31)|||||||
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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.
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.