Bohumil Modrý

Bohumil Modrý

Personal information
Born	(1916-09-24)September 24, 1916 Prague, Austria-Hungary
Died	July 21, 1963(1963-07-21) (aged 46) Prague, Czechoslovakia
Medal record Men's ice hockey Olympic Games 1948 St. Moritz Ice hockey World Championship 1949 Stockholm Ice hockey

Bohumil Modrý (24 September 1916 – 21 July 1963) was a goalie for the Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team which won the silver medal at the 1948 Olympics and the gold medal at the 1949 World Championship.^[1]

Modrý played his club hockey with LTC Praha (LTC Prague), which suffered four defections at the 1948 Spengler Cup in Davos. 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 arrested by the communist authorities at the Prague Airport while preparing to travel to London to defend their title at the 1950 World Championship tournament. They were charged with making plans to defect to the West, and in October Modrý and eleven other players were convicted of treason. Modrý received the longest sentence, 15 years in prison, as the supposed leader of the potential defection plan.

Modrý served his prison time in Pankrác Prison in Prague and Bory Prison in Plzeň. He also served some of his time as a forced laborer in the uranium mines in Jáchymov.

Modrý served 13 years of the 15 year sentence, dying in his hometown of Prague shortly after his release from incarceration.^[2]

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