Vladimír Kobranov
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 October 1927 |
| Died | 25 October 2015 (aged 88) Switzerland |
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Vladimír Kobranov (4 October 1927 – 25 October 2015) was a Czech ice hockey player who represented Czechoslovakia.
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
- ↑ "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
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
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