Milan Tošnar

Career
Milan Tošnar
nation	Czech Republic
birthday	February 27, 1925
place of birth	Brno , Czechoslovakia
date of death	June 15, 2016
Place of death	Prague , Czech Republic
discipline	Hurdles
Best performance	14.6 s (110 m hurdles) 24.8 s (200 m hurdles) 54.1 s (400 m hurdles) 10.9 s (100 m) 3: 22.2 min (4 × 400 m relay)
society	SK Moravská Slavia VS Brno Sokol Královo Pole Včela Brno ATK-ÚDA-Dukla Praha

Milan Tošnar
in his playing days

Milan Tošnar (born February 27, 1925 in Brno , † June 15, 2016 in Prague ) was a Czech hurdler , trainer and sports official. He was the first Czechoslovakian runner to run the 110-meter distance under 15 seconds.

Live and act

Tošnar studied from 1946 to 1950 at the Pedagogical Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno. In 1961 he defended his dissertation at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport at Charles University in Prague.

Parallel to his own athletic career, Tošnar worked as a trainer from 1952, of which until 1956 as head coach, the athletes of Dukla Prague. He took part as a trainer at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome . His protégés included u. a. Václav Janeček, Vilém Mandlík, Milan Čečman and Jiří Kynos.

In 1966 Tošnar moved as an assistant coach to the football club Dukla Prague , with whom he won the championship in his first season in 1965/66. In the season 1966/67 Dukla moved into the semifinals of the European Cup . In 1969 Tošnar ended his work as an assistant coach of the football club.

Between 1959 and 1962 Tošnar also acted as chairman of the methodological committee of Czechoslovak sports. In the years 1970–1983 he worked for the Czechoslovak Ministry of Defense in the administration for top and competitive sports.

Tošnar was married to the sprinter Zdena Tošnarová, née Petrová (1927–2001). His brother Pavel Tošnar (* 1933) was also an athlete, his granddaughter Petra Tošnarová is internationally active in Taekwondo.

Athletic career

Tošnar was discovered by Antonín Friedl, who trained him until 1950. Tošnar was active from 1941 to 1945 for SK Moravská Slavia, from 1946 to 1947 for VS Brno, 1948 for Sokol Královo Pole, 1949–1950 for Včela Brno and from 1950 to 1958 for ATK-ÚDA-Dukla Praha.

On July 2, 1949, Tošnar in Prague was the first Czechoslovakian runner to break the 15-second limit on the 110-meter hurdle route with 14.9 seconds.

Tošnar was six times Czechoslovakian champion over 110 meter hurdles (1946-1950, 1954) and two-time national champion over 400 meter hurdles (1948-1949). He was also national champion in 1946 with the 4-by-100-meter relay and in 1951 with the 4-by-400-meter relay . In 1948, 1950–1952 and 1955 Tošnar won the Prostějov Grand Prix .

Tošnar ran eleven national records. He improved the Czechoslovak best time on the 110-meter hurdles course five times from 15.1 to 14.6 s. In 1946, 1947 and 1949 Tošnar reached three national records over 200 meter hurdles and improved his times from 25.5 to 24.8 s. The Czechoslovak national record over 400 meter hurdles improved twice in 1949 from 54.4 to 54.1 s. With the 4 x 400 meter relay, he ran a new national record in 1951 in 3: 22.2 minutes.

Tošnar competed for Czechoslovakia in 24 international competitions between 1946 and 1955, including the European Athletics Championships in 1946 and 1950 . At the International University Games (Pre- Universiade ) of the CIE , Tošnar achieved second place in Paris in 1947 on the 110-meter hurdles course with 15.2 seconds. At the World Student Games in Budapest in 1949, he finished second over the same distance with 15.1 s and came in 5th over 400 meter hurdles in 55.8 s. In 1951 Tošnar came third at the World Student Games in Berlin over 110 meter hurdles in 14.6 seconds.

In 1958 he ended his active sports career.

Personal bests

110 m hurdles: 14.6 s, 1950
200 m hurdles: 24.8 s, 1949
400 m hurdles: 54.1 s, 1949
100 m: 10.9 s, 1950
4 × 400 m relay: 3: 22.2 min, 1951

Awards

1953: Master of Sports
1961: model trainer

Publications

Překážkové běhy (co-author), Sportovní a turistické nakl., Prague 1962

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personal data
SURNAME	Tošnar, Milan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech hurdler
DATE OF BIRTH	February 27, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brno
DATE OF DEATH	June 15, 2016
Place of death	Prague