Jaroslav Walter

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CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia  Jaroslav Walter Ice hockey player
Date of birth January 6, 1939
place of birth Sobědraž , Czechoslovakia
date of death 20th June 2014
Place of death Bratislava , Slovakia
size 180 cm
Weight 79 kg
position striker
Career stations
until 1953 Sokol Čimelice
1953-1956 Jiskra Lovosice
1956-1958 CHZ Litvínov
1958-1960 ASD Dukla Jihlava
1960-1964 CHZ Litvínov
1964-1969 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava
1969-1971 EV Innsbruck
1971-1972 ATSE Graz

Jaroslav Walter (born January 6, 1939 in Sobědraž ; † June 20, 2014 in Bratislava , Slovakia ) was a Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach.

Career

As a player

As a teenager, Jaroslav Walter first played for Sokol Čimelice, then from 1953 for Jiskra Lovosice. In 1956 he moved to CHZ Litvínov before he played for the army sports club Dukla Jihlava during his military service . After completing his military service, he returned to the CHZ Litvínov in 1960.

In 1964 he went to Slovan ChZJD Bratislava . He spent the last three years of his active career in Austria from 1969 : first at EV Innsbruck , then at ATSE Graz .

At the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 , he won the bronze medal by choosing his country; previously he had already finished third with the Czechoslovaks at the 1963 World Cup . The goal-scoring attacker made a total of 29 international matches for Czechoslovakia.

As a trainer

SlovakiaSlovakia  Jaroslav Walter
Coaching stations
1972-1974 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava
1974-1988 Dukla Trenčín
1978-1981 ECD Iserlohn
1981-1983 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava
1986-1989 Dukla Trenčín
1989 ERC Westphalia Dortmund
1990-1992 Slovan ChZJD Bratislava
1991-1992 National team Czechoslovakia
1993 National team Czech Republic
1994 Polar bears Berlin
1995-1996 HC Kometa Brno
1996-1998 HC Dukla Trenčín

Walter's first coaching station was Slovan Bratislava from 1972 to 1974, where he was Jan Starsi's assistant coach . He then coached Dukla Trenčín from 1974 to 1978.

In 1978 he moved to Germany to the ECD Iserlohn , which he supervised from 1978 to 1981 and led into the Bundesliga . Then he returned to Bratislava and was also the junior national coach of the ČSSR. He then became Czechoslovak runner-up in 1989 with Dukla Trenčín. In the summer of 1989 he took another post in Germany at the second division club ERC Westfalen Dortmund . However, he was released that same year and replaced by Gordon Blumenschein .

Between 1991 and the end of 1992 he was Ivan Hlinka's assistant coach for the Czechoslovak national team and won bronze medals with them at the 1992 Winter Olympics and the World Cup in the same year . Then he looked after - again with Hlinka as head coach - the Czech national ice hockey team at the ice hockey world championship in 1993 , where they won the bronze medal.

At the beginning of January 1994 he became the head coach of the Eisbären Berlin . He also looked after the polar bears at the beginning of the following season, but was released in late November 1994.

In the 1996/97 season he was head coach at HC Kometa Brno , which had previously been promoted to the Czech extra league. Between 1996 and 1998 Walter looked after Dukla Trenčín again and became Slovak champion with the team in 1997 .

In 2005 he was inducted into the Slovak Hockey Hall of Fame for his services to the Slovak ice hockey sport.

Walter died on June 20, 2014 in a hospital in Bratislava .

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sport.Pravda.sk: Smutná správa pre slovenský hokej. Zomrel Jaroslav Walter (June 20, 2014)
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , Yellow Vest didn't help Jaroslav Walter
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , Jaroslav Walter: I can just get three complete blocks together , September 19, 1994
  4. ^ IIHF , Walter passes away - Won two bronze medals with Czechoslovakia , June 23, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Jaroslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Sobědraž
DATE OF DEATH 20th June 2014
Place of death Bratislava