Zdeněk Jarkovský

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CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia  Zdeněk Jarkovský Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 3, 1918
place of birth Neubidschow , Austria-Hungary
date of death November 8, 1948
Place of death over the English Channel
Nickname Sakovič
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Right
Career stations
until 1939 SK Nový Bydžov
1939-1940 HO Karlín
1940-1948 I. ČLTK Prague

Zdeněk Jarkovský (born October 3, 1918 in Neubidschow , then Austria-Hungary ; † November 8, 1948 over the English Channel ) was a Czech ice hockey goalkeeper . With the Czechoslovak national team he won the silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games in 1948 and the gold medal at the Ice Hockey World Championship in 1947 .

Career

Zdeněk Jarkovský began his career in his hometown with SK Nový Bydžov . In the late 1930s he moved to Prague to study there. After the closure of all Czech universities by the German occupiers in 1939, he played for HO Karlín , where his university team was staying. At a tournament shortly before Christmas 1939 he was discovered by players of the I. ČLTK Prague , whose goalkeeper Jiří Hertl had previously switched to city rivals LTC Prague .

From 1940 he played for the I. ČLTK and won the championship of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia with this in 1941 . After the end of World War II, he was runner-up three times, each behind the LTC.

He was also active in the Czechoslovak national team and made his debut for Czechoslovakia in a game against Switzerland on January 19, 1946. At the World Cup in Prague in 1947 he was used in a game and became world champion. A year later, at the 1948 Winter Olympics, it was used twice and won the silver medal. In total he came to seven internationals for Czechoslovakia.

Jarkovský died in a flight accident over the English Channel in 1948 when he was traveling to London with five other players . The chartered Beechcraft 18 small aircraft of the Escadrille Mercure Taxis Aeriens ( aircraft registration F-BGAF ) had an accident in adverse weather in the English Channel, with the two crew members also perishing in addition to these six passengers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c JARKOVSKÝ ZDENĚK. In: reprehokej.cz. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Zdeněk Jarkovský. In: olympic.cz. Retrieved December 5, 2019 (Czech).
  3. ^ Accident report Beech 18 F-BGAF , Aviation Safety Network WikiBase (English), accessed on August 19, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Jarkovský, Zdeněk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jarkovsky, Zdenek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Nový Bydžov , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1948
Place of death over the English Channel