Ondrej Bendík

Ondrej Bendík (born September 15, 1930 - May 17, 2017 ) was a Czechoslovak national ice hockey player who worked as an ice hockey coach from 1963 .

Career

Ondrej Bendík as coach of the traditional KEC team

Bendík was active between 1947 and 1963 as a defender with TJ Tatran Poprad in the 1st Czechoslovak League. However, he could not win a title during this time. Since 1953 he worked as a coach at his club at the time in Poprad, which is why he embarked on a coaching career after his career as a player.

He initially worked for two years as a trainer at TJ Dukla VSZ Košice and from 1967 for one year at KHL Mladost Zagreb . At the same time, he was in charge of the Czechoslovak national team , with which he won two silver medals at world championships and the Olympic bronze medal at the Innsbruck Games , and at the end of his term of office was honored by the Czechoslovak government for special services.

In 1969 he got an engagement at the Cologne EK (KEK) and went to Germany. He worked there for three years and, after it split off from KEK, joined the Cologne EC (KEC). In the first year he and the team made it to the 1st Bundesliga and in the following years always kept up. In 1975, a year before the KEC won the first title, he was dismissed in Cologne, but remained connected to the city and the club. A short time later he opened an international ice hockey school, as well as his own shop for ice hockey accessories in Cologne. He also looked after the traditional team of the KEC as a trainer until 2009.

Web links

• Profile on the homepage of the KEC “Die Haie” Traditionsmannschaft eV ( Memento from January 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.haie.de/news/der-kec-trauert-um-ondrej-bendik
2. ↑ Newsletter of the Kölner Haie from October 14th, 2009: "Five games ban for Renz / The" great fathers "of Cologne ice hockey are guests at the home game on Saturday. Those born in 1922 and younger as guests of honor in the arena"