Zdeněk Groessl
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| Full name | Zdeněk Groessl | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Czech | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 September 1941 Plzeň, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 17 November 2023 (aged 82) | ||||||||||||||
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Zdeněk Groessl (8 September 1941 – 17 November 2023) was a Czech volleyball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1968 and the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Biography
[edit]Groessl was born in Plzeň on 8 September 1941. In 1968 he was part of the Czechoslovak team which won the bronze medal in the Olympic tournament. He played all nine matches.
Four years later he finished sixth with the Czechoslovak team in the 1972 Olympic tournament. He played six matches.
Groessl died on 17 November 2023, at the age of 82.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Opustil nás mistr světa a olympionik Zdeněk Groessl". CVF. 20 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
External links
[edit]- Zdeněk Groessl at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Zdenek Groessl at Olympics.com
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- 1941 births
- 2023 deaths
- Czech men's volleyball players
- Czechoslovak men's volleyball players
- Olympic volleyball players for Czechoslovakia
- Volleyball players at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Czechoslovakia
- Sportspeople from Plzeň
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Czechoslovak Olympic medalist stubs
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