Jozef Golonka

Jozef Golonka
Born (1938-01-06) 6 January 1938 (age 86)
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Height 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)
Weight 165 lb (75 kg; 11 st 11 lb)
Position Centre
National team  Czechoslovakia
Playing career 1955–1972
Medal record
Men's ice hockey
Representing  Czechoslovakia
Winter Olympics
Bronze medal – third place 1964 Innsbruck
Silver medal – second place 1968 Grenoble
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1959 Czechoslovakia
Silver medal – second place 1965 Finland
Silver medal – second place 1966 Yugoslavia
Bronze medal – third place 1969 Sweden

Jozef Golonka (born 6 January 1938) is a Slovak former ice hockey player who played in the Czechoslovak Extraliga and was a member of the Czechoslovakia national ice hockey team. He won a bronze medal in the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria and won a silver medal in the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. He was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 1998. He is also a member of the Slovak Hockey Hall of Fame (2002), German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame (2004) and Czech Ice Hockey Hall of Fame (2010).[1]

  1. ^ Dvořáková, Helena (31 December 2018). "Narodil sa s hokejkou. Jozef Golonka je dieťa ľadu". Pravda (in Slovak). Bratislava, Slovakia. Retrieved 3 July 2023.