Vladimír Kobranov
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| Born | 4 October 1927 Černošice, Czechoslovakia | ||||||||
| Died | 25 October 2015 (aged 88) Switzerland | ||||||||
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Vladimír Kobranov (4 October 1927 – 25 October 2015) was an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovakian national team.
He won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics and a gold medal at the 1949 world championship. In 1950 he was imprisoned with other Czech hockey players by the communist government after being accused of planning to defect.[1] His career and careers of his colleagues were ended by the communist regime. In 2009 he was introduced in the Czech Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Olympedia – Vladimír Kobranov". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 2025-04-13.
- ^ "Czechoslovakia Ice Hockey at the 1948 Sankt Moritz Winter Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
- ^ Michael Bereň (26 October 2015). "Zemřel hokejista Vladimír Kobranov, mistr světa vězněný komunisty". iDNES.cz (in Czech).
External links
[edit]- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
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