František Tikal

✶July 18, 1933

†August 10, 2008

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About their life

František Tikal was a Czechoslovak ice hockey defenseman. He played 17 seasons in the Czechoslovak Extraliga for HC Sparta Praha and won two national titles. Internationally he played 59 games for Czechoslovakia, including 15 at the 1960 and 1964 Winter Olympics, and earned an Olympic bronze medal in 1964, placing fourth in 1960. He was named the best defender of the tournament at the 1964 Olympics and 1965 World Championships. At the 1960 Games he played one game against his brother Zdeněk, who fled to Australia in 1948. In 2004, Tikal was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame.

Czech ice hockey coach, ice hockey player and field hockey player (1933–2008)

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