Róbert Tomík

Róbert Tomík
Date of birth	December 12, 1976
place of birth	Ilava , Czechoslovakia
size	178 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1995-1996	HC Dukla Trenčín
1996-1997	HK Spartak Dubnica
1997-1999	HC Slovan Bratislava
1999-2000	MHk 32 Liptovský Mikuláš Pelicans Lahti
2000-2001	HC Karlovy Vary
2001-2003	HC Sparta Prague
2003-2004	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2004-2005	HC Karlovy Vary Tappara Tampere Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2005-2006	Vsetínská hokejová Malmö Redhawks
2006-2007	HK Sibir Novosibirsk Malmö Redhawks HC Zlín
2007-2009	HC Oceláři Třinec
2009-2010	HC Dukla Trenčín
2010-2011	HC Košice

Róbert Tomík (born December 12, 1976 in Ilava , Czechoslovakia ) is a former Slovak ice hockey player who was active for many different clubs in Europe. In Germany he played for the Nürnberg Ice Tigers . The greatest success of his career was winning the gold medal at the 2002 World Cup .

Career

Róbert Tomík began his career as a hockey player in the youth of HC Dukla Trenčín , for whose professional team he made his debut in the Slovakian extra league in the 1995/96 season . After a season at HK Spartak Dubnica , the attacker moved to HC Slovan Bratislava , with whom he was Slovak champion for the first time in the 1997/98 season . After another year he left the capital city and began the 1999/2000 season with their league rivals MHk 32 Liptovský Mikuláš , before finishing them with the Pelicans Lahti from the Finnish SM-liiga . In the 2000/01 season, the left shooter ran for HC Karlovy Vary , before he was on the ice from 2001 to 2003 for HC Sparta Prague . With the team from the Czech capital he won the Czech championship in the 2001/02 season .

Tomík spent the 2003/04 season with the Nuremberg Ice Tigers from the German Ice Hockey League . He then began the following season at his ex-club HC Karlovy Vary from the Czech Republic and the Finnish first division team Tappara Tampere , before finishing them again at Nuremberg in the DEL. The 2005/06 season began the 2002 world champion at the Czech extra league club Vsetínská hokejová , but left it after only eleven games to end the season with the Malmö Redhawks in HockeyAllsvenskan , the second Swedish division. Also in the 2006/07 season he changed clubs several times. After playing three games for HK Sibir Novosibirsk from the Russian Super League , he played eleven times for Malmö in HockeyAllsvenskan and then until the end of the season for HC Zlín in the Czech Republic.

In the summer of 2007 Tomík was committed by HC Oceláři Třinec from the Czech extra league, for which he went hunting for goals for two years before he was loaned to HC Dukla Trenčín in the middle of the 2008/09 season, where he had started his career. He played the 2009 playoffs again in Třinec before returning to his hometown club in the summer of the same year. In January 2010 he left this and was signed by HC Košice , with whom he became Slovak champion at the end of the season. In January 2011 he was released from HC Košice and then ended his career. In the 2016/17 season he returned to the ice for four games for the MHK Dubnica.

International

For Slovakia Tomík took part in the 2002 World Cup, where he became world champion with his team.

Achievements and Awards

• 1998 Slovak champion with HC Slovan Bratislava
• 2002 Czech champion with HC Sparta Prague
• 2002 gold medal at the world championship
• 2010 Slovak champion with HC Košice

DEL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	2	66	21st	17th	38	38
Playoffs	2	12	3	3	6th	10

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Róbert Tomík at eurohockey.com
• Róbert Tomík at eliteprospects.com (English)