Miloslav Pokorný
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| Born |
October 5, 1926 Prague, Czechoslovakia | ||||||
| Died |
November 8, 1948 (aged 22) La Manche | ||||||
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Miloslav Pokorný (5 October 1926 in Prague, Czechoslovakia – 8 November 1948 in La Manche) was an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovak 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.