Vladimír_Dzurilla

Vladimír Dzurilla

Vladimír Dzurilla

Ice hockey player

Vladimír Dzurilla (2 August 1942 in Bratislava, Slovakia – 27 July 1995 in Düsseldorf, Germany)[1] was a Slovak ice hockey goaltender playing for Czechoslovakia.

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Dzurilla, a refrigerator repairman by profession, was goalie for the Czechoslovak national team for over 16 years, winning three gold, three silver and four bronze medals at world championships as well as one silver and two bronze Olympic medals. However, in most of these tournaments Dzurilla and Jiří Holeček were battling to be Czechoslovakia's top goaltender and each were given their share of games.[citation needed]

For North American fans, he is mostly known for stopping 29 shots in a 1-0 win over Canada in the 1976 Canada Cup (where the Czechoslovaks finished second).[2]

Dzurilla was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 1998.[3] He suffered a fatal heart attack at his home in Düsseldorf, Germany on 27 July 1995, only days before his 53rd birthday.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "Olympedia – Vladimír Dzurilla". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Vladimir Dzurilla Biography". telus.net. Archived from the original on April 9, 2011. Retrieved November 9, 2010.
  3. [3]
    Pašuth, Peter (27 July 2020). "Milovník hokeja a života, slovenský Hokejista 20. storočia už 25 rokov nie je medzi nami". Slovak Ice Hockey Federation (in Slovak). Retrieved 3 July 2023.
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