Miroslav Sláma

Miroslav Sláma
Miroslav Sláma
Born	3 August 1917; Třebíč, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Died	30 November 2008 (aged 91); Thousand Oaks, California, United States
Position	Defence
National team	Czechoslovakia
Representing Czechoslovakia
Men's Ice Hockey

Miroslav "Michael" Sláma (3 August 1917 – 30 November 2008) was a Czech ice hockey player and later an American librarian. He represented Czechoslovakia and won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics^[1] and a gold medal at the 1947 Ice Hockey World Championships. In total, he played 26 games and scored 9 goals for the Czechoslovakia national ice hockey team.

Biography

Toward the end of World War II, Sláma went to Theresienstadt concentration camp to help people from Třebíč return home.^[2] After the communist coup d'état in Czechoslovakia he defected to Switzerland in December 1948 during an ice hockey tournament in Davos, and spent five years as a player and coach there before emigrating to the United States where he became a librarian and library administrator.^[3]

After his death on 30 November 2008 in Thousand Oaks, California,^[4] his remains were transferred to the Old Cemetery in Třebíč, Czech Republic.

↑ Czechoslovakia Ice Hockey at the 1948 Sankt Moritz Winter Games
↑ Kovář, Pavel (2016-04-04). POHNUTÉ OSUDY: Miroslav Sláma, mistr světa, o kterém se nesmělo psát (in Czech). Retrieved 2021-07-23.
↑ Wallechinsky, David & Loucky, Jaime (2009) "Ice Hockey: Men". In The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics: 2010 Edition. London: Aurum Press Limited; p. 23
↑ Michael Miroslav Slama

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