Bohumil Modrý

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IIHF Hall of Fame , 2011
Bohumil Modrý
Date of birth September 24, 1916
place of birth Prague
date of death July 21, 1963
Place of death Prague
position goalkeeper
Career stations
1936-1949 LTC Prague

Bohumil Modrý (born September 24, 1916 in Prague ; † July 21, 1963 there ) was a Czechoslovak ice hockey goalkeeper . He was considered the best ice hockey goalkeeper in Europe in the years before and after the Second World War. In 1950 he was imprisoned for five years for political reasons.

biography

Career as an ice hockey player

In 1936 Bohumil Modrý, called Boža, began his career as a competitive athlete with his hometown club LTC Prague . With this team he was national champions six times in a row from 1937 to 1949 after the game operations in the state league between 1939 and 1945 had been interrupted due to the Second World War. During this time he won the Czech ice hockey championship with LTC Prague in 1939 and the ice hockey championship of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia four times in the following years .

At the international level, Modrý, who had stood in the goal of the Czechoslovak national team for the first time at the age of 21, won the silver medal with the national team at the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz in 1948 . In 1947 and 1949 he became world champion with the national team after the team had won bronze in the 1938 World Cup. In the three tournaments Modrý also provided the best European team with Czechoslovakia and won the European championship title with his country, which was awarded parallel to the other titles.

Trial and detention

In March 1950 the players of the Czechoslovak national team were supposed to travel to London for the ice hockey world championship , but twelve of them were arrested before leaving. In a secret trial, they were charged with espionage and treason for allegedly planning to stay in Britain after the World Cup . There had already been discussions about this three years earlier, during the Spengler Cup in Switzerland , in the LTC Prague team, which made up the majority of the national team. All the players except Vladimír Zábrodský , who received a brief suspension, were sentenced to prison terms ranging from eight months to 15 years, which later led to suspicions that Zábrodský had betrayed his team-mates.

Modrý was also arrested, although he had resigned by then, and received the maximum sentence of 15 years. Although he was released after five years in prison, but was suffering from the health consequences of forced labor in the uranium mines of Jáchymov . Despite a serious illness, he wrote books and essays on the training of ice hockey goalkeepers, who had a great influence on the sport in his home country. He died of leukemia in 1963 at the age of 46 .

Professional

Bohumil Modrý was an engineer by profession; after 1945 he lived with his family in Lanškroun . There he acted as the state administrator of a brick factory and drafted, among other things, the plans for a port on an Elbe-Danube canal and the construction of an airport.

Honors

In 1994, the new ice hockey hall in Lanškroun was named after Modrý and a bust was unveiled in the presence of his widow, his two daughters (one of them is the former Burgtheater actress Blanka Modra ) and all surviving members of the former hockey team. A street in Prague also bears his name. In May 2011, Bohumil Modrý was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Ice Hockey Federation . The trophy for the best player in the Czech Ice Hockey League, chosen by the players, bears his name.

In August 2011, the Austrian writer Josef Haslinger published a novel-like biography of Bohumil Modrý, based on conversations with and documents from his daughter Blanka Modra.

successes

National

  • 1944 Master of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia with LTC Prague
  • 1946 Czechoslovakian champion with LTC Prague
  • 1947 Czechoslovakian champion with LTC Prague
  • 1948 Czechoslovakian champion with LTC Prague
  • 1949 Czechoslovakian champion with LTC Prague

International

Career statistics

year team event Sp S. N U Min GT SO GTS
1937 Czechoslovakia WM 7th 0.88
1938 Czechoslovakia WM 7th 0.78
1939 Czechoslovakia WM 9 1.02
1947 Czechoslovakia WM 6th 0.83
1948 Czechoslovakia Olympia 5 4th 0 1 2.33
1949 Czechoslovakia WM 6th 1.67
International overall 41

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ iihf.com, Czechoslovakian team jailed for treason - entire generation lost
  2. ↑ Bohumil Modrý on iihf.com (English)
  3. ↑ Czech Ice Hockey Association on agrs.cz ( memento of the original from November 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.agrs.cz
personal data
SURNAME Modry, Bohumil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Modry, Bohumil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1963
Place of death Prague