| Miroslav Sláma | ||||||||||||||
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 Miroslav Sláma | ||||||||||||||
| Born |
(1917-02-17)17 February 1917 Třebíč, Vysočina, Austria-Hungary | |||||||||||||
| Died |
30 November 2008(2008-11-30) (aged 91) Thousand Oaks, California, USA | |||||||||||||
| Position | Defence | |||||||||||||
| National team |
 Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||
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"Michael" Miroslav Sláma (February 17, 1917 in Třebíč, Vysočina, Austria-Hungary – November 30, 2008 in Thousand Oaks, California) was an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovak national team. He won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics and a gold medal at the 1947 Ice Hockey World Championships. In total, he played 26 games and scored 9 goals for the Czechoslovakia national ice hockey team.
Biography
Toward the end of World War II, Sláma went to Theresienstadt concentration camp to help people from Třebíč return home. After the communist coup d'état in Czechoslovakia he defected to Switzerland in December 1948 during an ice hockey tournament in Davos, and spent five years as a player and coach there before emigrating to the United States where he became a librarian and library administrator.
After his death in November 2008, his remains were transferred to the Old Cemetery in Třebíč, Czech Republic.
References
- Michael Miroslav Slama
- Czechoslovakia Ice Hockey at the 1948 Sankt Moritz Winter Games
- Kovář, Pavel (2016-04-04). POHNUTÉ OSUDY: Miroslav Sláma, mistr světa, o kterém se nesmělo psát. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
- Wallechinsky, David & Loucky, Jaime (2009) "Ice Hockey: Men". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited; p. 23
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
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- 1917 births
- 2008 deaths
- American librarians
- American people of Czech descent
- Czech ice hockey defencemen
- Czechoslovak defectors
- Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States
- Czechoslovak expatriate ice hockey people
- Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
- Czechoslovak ice hockey defencemen
- Ice hockey people from the Vysočina Region
- Ice hockey players at the 1948 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1948 Winter Olympics
- Olympic ice hockey players for Czechoslovakia
- Olympic medalists in ice hockey
- Olympic silver medalists for Czechoslovakia
- Sportspeople from Třebíč
- Czech ice hockey player stubs