(12 October 2021 - 13 September 2001 London), was an amateur tennis and ice hockey player of Czechoslovak origin.
Ice hockey: He was an ice hockey player between 1936 and 1949 with the club I. ČLTK Praha. He also played for the Czechoslovak national team and participated in the 1939 World Championship. He helped the team win its first gold medal at the 1947 World Championship in Prague. He also competed at the 1948 Winter Olympics, where the Czechoslovaks won silver. He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1997. In 2010, he was inducted into the Czech Hockey Hall of Fame.
Tennis: He won Wimbledon in 1954 and the French Open in 1951 and 1952.
He was an Egyptian citizen from 1949 to 1959, gained British citizenship in 1959 and died in the United Kingdom, where he was married, in 2001.
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