Karel Hromádka

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Karel Hromádka
Date of birth May 23, 1905
place of birth Prague , Austria-Hungary
date of death March 30, 1978
Place of death Tallahassee , Florida , United States
position striker
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1924-1927 HOVS Prague
1927-1935 LTC Prague
1935-1936 SK Podolí Prague

Karel Hromádka (born May 23, 1905 in Prague , Austria-Hungary , † March 30, 1978 in Tallahassee , Florida , United States ) was a Czechoslovak ice hockey player . He took part in two Olympic Winter Games and won the European championship twice with the Czechoslovak national team . With his club team, LTC Prague , he won the Spengler Cup three times .

Career

Karel Hromádka began his career in the junior teams of HOVS Prague , in whose first team he made his debut in 1924 at the age of 19. In 1927 he moved to the then top club LTC Prague , with which he won the Czechoslovak championship five times in a row from 1931 to 1935 . Together with Josef Maleček and Jirí Tožicka , he was part of the legendary first row of the capital's club. In 1929, 1930 and 1932 he also won the Spengler Cup with the LTC , the oldest and most renowned international tournament for club teams, which has been held annually in Davos since 1923 . In 1930 and 1931 he and his team also won the Tatra Cup , the second oldest international club tournament . In 1935 he switched to SK Podolí Prague , where he let his career end and ended it in 1936. He then worked as a trainer at Podolí until 1948.

Hromádka has meanwhile been accepted into the Czech Ice Hockey Hall of Fame .

International

Hromádka first appeared for the Czechoslovak national team at the Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz in 1928 and took seventh place with his team out of eleven participating teams. He scored a goal in the 3-2 win against Poland in the preliminary round .

At the last two independently held European Championships in 1929 and 1932 , he was also on the ice for his colors, where he was able to win the title with the Czechoslovak team in 1929. In 1932 , at the last independent European championship, it was only enough for fifth place.

He played at world championships in 1930 , 1931 , 1933 , 1934 and 1935 . In 1933 he won the bronze medal with the Czechoslovak team. Since the European championships were also played as part of the world championships, Maleček also achieved a European championship title (1933) and three bronze medals (1931, 1934 and 1935) in the context of the world championship tournaments.

One last time Hromádka took part with the Czechoslovak selection at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . He won the silver medal with his team at the European championship held as part of the 1936 Winter Olympics.

In total, Hromádka scored 16 goals in 54 international matches for Czechoslovakia.

Private life

After the communists under Klement Gottwald took power in his homeland in the February revolution in 1948 , Hromádka left Czechoslovakia and moved to the United States .

Achievements and Awards

International

Note: After 1929, only an independent European championship took place in 1932 , so that the European titles and placements were awarded at the respective world championships and Olympic Winter Games.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biographical note on www.eliteprospects.com, accessed April 17, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Hromádka, Karel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hromadka, Karel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1978
Place of death Tallahassee , United States