Valentin Loos

Valentin Loos
Date of birth	April 13, 1895
place of birth	Prague , Austria-Hungary
date of death	September 8, 1942
Place of death	Prague , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Nickname	Vilda
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1913-1929	SK Slavia Prague

Valentin "Vilda" Loos (born April 13, 1895 in Prague ; † September 8, 1942 there ) was a Czechoslovak ice hockey player . At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp , he won the bronze medal in the Olympic ice hockey tournament with the Czechoslovak national team . Four years later he also took part in the Olympic ice hockey tournament of the Winter Games in Chamonix . He also won the European Championships twice with the Czechoslovaks .

Life

Valentin Loos' father František (1858–1911) was a butcher from Holešovice . He was the youngest of three children, his brother Josef Loos (1888–1955) was also an ice hockey player and later chairman of the Czechoslovak Ice Hockey Association. Valentin Loos later works as a bank clerk. In 1942 he died of a heart attack.

Career

Valentin Loos, like his brother Josef, started ice hockey at SK Slavia Prague . The two brothers played together in the national team at the 1920 Summer Olympics, which later became the first world championship, and won the bronze medal. He also represented his home country at the first Winter Olympics four years later. He also won the European Championships with the national team in 1922 and 1925 , as well as the EM silver medal in 1921 and 1926 and the bronze medal in 1923. In total, he completed 27 international matches, in which he scored 12 goals.

In addition to ice hockey, he was also active as a football player for SK Slavia Prague. He represented Czechoslovakia in football at the Allied Games in Paris in 1919 .

Achievements and Awards

• 1920 bronze medal at the Summer Olympics

statistics

year	team	event		Gates	result
1920	Czechoslovakia	Olympia		0	Bronze medal
1921	Czechoslovakia	EM		1	Silver medal
1922	Czechoslovakia	EM		1	gold medal
1923	Czechoslovakia	EM		3	Silver medal
1924	Czechoslovakia	Olympia		4th	5th place
1925	Czechoslovakia	EM		0	gold medal
1926	Czechoslovakia	EM		3	Silver medal
1927	Czechoslovakia	EM		0	5th place

Web links

• Valentin Loos in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Valentin Loos at eliteprospects.com (English)

Remarks

1. ↑ In the literature he is often wrongly referred to as Vilém Loos.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Moravská zemská knihovna: Vilda Loos zemřel. Moravská orlice. September 11, 1942, p. 4. In: digitalniknihovna.cz. September 11, 1942, accessed February 24, 2020 (Czech).