Jaroslav Walter
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
Coaching stations | |
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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
- 1963 bronze medal at the world championship
- 1964 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games
- 1989 Czechoslovak runner-up with HC Dukla Trenčín ( as coach )
- 1992 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games ( as assistant coach )
- 1993 bronze medal at the world championship ( as assistant coach )
- 1997 Slovak champion with HC Dukla Trenčín
Web links
- Jaroslav Walter in the Slovak Hockey Hall of Fame (Slovak)
- Jaroslav Walter in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Jaroslav Walter at rodi-db.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sport.Pravda.sk: Smutná správa pre slovenský hokej. Zomrel Jaroslav Walter (June 20, 2014)
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , Yellow Vest didn't help Jaroslav Walter
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , Jaroslav Walter: I can just get three complete blocks together , September 19, 1994
- ^ IIHF , Walter passes away - Won two bronze medals with Czechoslovakia , June 23, 2014
personal data | |
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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 |