HOCKEY PLAYER

Ladislav Troják

1914 - 1948

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Ladislav Troják (15 June 1914 – 8 November 1948) was a Slovak ice hockey player. On the national team of Czechoslovakia, he was the first Slovak hockey player to win a World Championship (1947 World Championship). Troják wore the number 9. He died on 8 November 1948 during an aircraft accident over the English Channel, along with five other members of the Czechoslovak national team. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ladislav Troják is the 37th most popular hockey player (down from 34th in 2019), the 197th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 203rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Slovak Hockey Player.

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Among HOCKEY PLAYERS

Among hockey players, Ladislav Troják ranks 37 out of 676Before him are Georges Vézina, Vladimir Petrov, Guy Lafleur, Ernie Collett, Oldřich Machač, and Vladimír Martinec. After him are Otakar Vindyš, Peter Forsberg, Bibi Torriani, Marcel Dionne, Frank Sullivan, and Alexander Yakushev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Ladislav Troják ranks 301Before him are Juanita Moore, Mustafa Mansour, Yuri Linnik, Xosé María Díaz Castro, Josette Day, and Jack Medica. After him are Dmitry Lavrinenko, Charles Régnier, Sam Manekshaw, Louis Chaillot, Ersilio Tonini, and Martí de Riquer i Morera. Among people deceased in 1948, Ladislav Troják ranks 164Before him are Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller, Pencho Zlatev, Georg Kulenkampff, Charles A. Beard, Carl Hårleman, and Malcolm Campbell. After him are Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim, Julius Curtius, Alice Salomon, István Barta, Wesley Clair Mitchell, and Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Ladislav Troják ranks 197 out of 418Before him are Štefan Uher (1930), Daniela Hantuchová (1983), Margit Slachta (1884), Milan Škriniar (1995), Eduard Kukan (1939), and Viktor Madarász (1830). After him are Anton Moravčík (1931), Ján Kocian (1958), Eduard Heger (1976), Ľuboš Micheľ (1968), Ľudmila Pajdušáková (1916), and Albín Brunovský (1935).

Among HOCKEY PLAYERS In Slovakia

Among hockey players born in Slovakia, Ladislav Troják ranks 2Before him are Stan Mikita (1940). After him are Pavol Demitra (1974), Miroslav Šatan (1974), Žigmund Pálffy (1972), Zdeno Chára (1977), Marián Hossa (1979), Róbert Švehla (1969), Marián Gáborík (1982), Ľuboš Bartečko (1976), Marcel Hossa (1981), and Ľubomír Višňovský (1976).