Kamil Kašťák

Kamil Kašťák
Date of birth	May 8, 1966
place of birth	Most , Czechoslovakia
size	178 cm
Weight	78 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1983-1985	CHZ Litvínov
1986-1987	ASD Dukla Jihlava
1987-1992	CHZ Litvínov
1992-1993	HV71
1993-1994	Lukko Rauma HC Chemopetrol Litvínov
1994-1995	IK Oskarshamn
1995-1996	HC Sparta Prague HC Škoda Plzeň
1996-1997	HC Chemopetrol Litvínov
1997-1999	ES white water

Kamil Kašťák (born May 8, 1966 in Most , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Czech ice hockey player and current coach .

Career

Kamil Kašťák began his career as a hockey player at the CHZ Litvínov , for whose senior team he was initially active from 1983 to 1985 in the first division , the highest Czechoslovak league. He then had to do his military service and played in the 1986/87 season for the army sports club ASD Dukla Jihlava also in the 1st division before returning to Litvínov for another five years. The 1992/93 season spent the winger at HV71 in the Swedish Elitserien . The following season he also began in Northern Europe with Lukko Rauma from the Finnish SM-liiga , but he returned to HC Litvínov in the middle of the season. For Litvínov he scored 24 scorer points in 26 games, including 14 goals , in the Czech Extra League, which was held for the first time after the division of Czechoslovakia .

During the 1994/95 season Kašťák went to IK Oskarshamn in what was then the third Swedish division, Division 2 . The 1995/96 season he started with the capital club HC Sparta Prague in the Czech extra league and finished it with its league rivals HC Škoda Plzeň . For the 1996/97 season , the two-time Olympian returned to his home club from Litvínov. The Czech most recently played for ES Weißwasser in the second German division from 1997 to 1999 before ending his active career at the age of 33.

For the 2005/06 season Kašťák took over as head coach at the Czech third division club HC Most from his hometown. With this he rose in 2008 for the first time in the second Czech division . In this he served in the 2008-09 season , however, the HC VOKD Poruba , with whom he descended into the second league. In the 2010/11 season he rose again to the first division with HC Most, who had also been relegated in the meantime. On November 15, 2011 he was released after only two wins from the first 22 games of the 2011/12 season in Most.

International

For Czechoslovakia Kašťák took part in the junior division at the U18 European Junior Championship in 1983 and the U20 Junior World Championship in 1984 . At the U18 European Championship in 1983 and the U20 World Cup in 1984, he and his team won bronze medals. In the senior sector he was in his country's squad for the Canada Cup in 1991 . He also represented Czechoslovakia at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and at the 1992 World Cup . In 1992 he won bronze medals at both the World Cup and the Winter Olympics.

For the Czech Republic , he participated in the World Championships in 1993 and 1994 and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer part. At the 1993 World Cup he won the bronze medal with the Czech Republic.

Achievements and Awards

• 2008 promotion to the 1st league with HC Most (as coach)
• 2011 promotion to the 1st division with HC Most (as coach)

International

• 1983 bronze medal at the U18 European Junior Championship
• 1984 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 1984 silver medal at the U18 European Junior Championship
• 1985 silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championship
• 1992 bronze medal at the Olympic Winter Games
• 1992 bronze medal at the world championship
• 1993 bronze medal at the world championship

Web links

• Kamil Kašťák at hockeydb.com (English)
• Kamil Kašťák at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Kamil Kašťák at eurohockey.com
• Kamil Kašťák in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )