Bohumil Modrý (24 September 1916 – 21 July 1963) was a goaltender for the

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which won the silver medal at the 1948 Olympics and 2 gold medals - at the 1947 World Championship and at the 1949 World Championship. He was posthumously inducted into the

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in 2011.

Career

Modrý played his club hockey with LTC Praha (LTC Prague), which suffered four defections at the 1948 Spengler Cup in

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. He was still a player with LTC Praha, and travelling as a delegate with the 1950 Czechoslovakia national team in March, when he and his teammates were

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by the communist authorities. The Czech national team were stopped on Saturday 11 March at

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while preparing to travel to London to defend their title at the 1950 World Championship tournament (reason: reporter's visas, but it was lie). On Monday 13 March they were arrested after the party on 12 March. Party was provide in the "Gold Pub", U Herclíků, Pštrossova 192/24, 110 00 Praha 1 – Nové Město and personally Modrý was not there. They were frustrated and in the pub they hates communist party (but secret police - STB - was there also). Some of them were charged with making plans to defect to the West. In October 1950 Modrý and ten other players were convicted of treason. Modrý received the longest sentence, 15 years in prison, as the supposed leader of the potential defection plan (together - 11 people ~ 74 years and 8 months). Modrý served his prison time in

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and Bory Prison in

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. He also served some of his time as a forced laborer in the uranium mines in

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. Modrý served 5 years of the 15 year sentence, dying in his hometown of Prague 8 years after his release (1955) from incarceration. He was posthumously inducted into the

in 2011.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Modry, Bohumil 1916 births 1963 deaths Czech ice hockey goaltenders Czechoslovak ice hockey goaltenders Ice hockey people from Prague Ice hockey players at the 1948 Winter Olympics IIHF Hall of Fame inductees Medalists at the 1948 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players for Czechoslovakia Olympic medalists in ice hockey Olympic silver medalists for Czechoslovakia People convicted of treason against Czechoslovakia Sportspeople convicted of crimes

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