Peter Pospíšil

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Peter Pospíšil (born April 24, 1944 in Bratislava ; † April 17, 2006 there ) was a Slovak handball player and photographer .

Athletic career

The 1.80 m tall and at his active time 80 kg heavy Pospíšil was a handball goalkeeper . From 1960 to 1964 he played for Slovan Bratislava . He then played for ČH Bratislava until the end of his career in 1975 , with whom he became Czechoslovakian champion in 1973. For the Czechoslovak national team , he played 28 international games , including five at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, where he won the silver medal.

Professional career

Pospíšil became a photographer after the end of his sporting career. From 1973 to 1992 he worked for the sports magazine Start. He then founded his own agency Štartfoto . In 1977, he won the World Press Photo Foundation's Press Photo of the Year award for his photographs at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal. He took part in 15 Summer and Winter Olympics as an active person and as a photographer.

Awards

  • 1972 Master of Sports ( Majster športu )
  • 1977 Press Photo of the Year, Sports
  • 2003 Silver Ring of the Slovak Olympic Committee ( Strieborné kruhy SOV )
  • 2004 IOC Trophy for Sport and Media ( Trofej MOV za Šport a média )
  • 2011 Admission to the Slovak Handball Hall of Fame (posthumous)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b www.cas.sk Zomrel špičkový športový photographer Peter Pospíšil (Slovak) from April 17, 2006, accessed on April 18, 2014
  2. ↑ www.forevervszkosice.sk Osobnosti hádzanej v ČSSR ( Memento of April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Slovak) accessed on April 18, 2014
  3. ^ Peter Pospíšil in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data
SURNAME Pospíšil, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak handball player and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 2006
Place of death Bratislava