Vladimír Kobranov

Vladimír Kobranov (4 October 1927 – 25 October 2015) was an ice hockey player for the Czechoslovakian national team.

Vladimír Kobranov

Personal information
Born	(1927-10-04)4 October 1927 Černošice, Czechoslovakia
Died	25 October 2015(2015-10-25) (aged 88) Switzerland
Medal record Men's Ice Hockey 1948 St. Moritz Team

Plaque honoring hockey players. Kobranov is named above the stick.

He won a silver medal at the 1948 Winter Olympics and a gold medal at the 1949 world championship. In 1950 he was imprisoned with other Czech hockey players by the communist government after being accused of planning to defect.^[1] His career and careers of his colleagues were ended by the communist regime. In 2009 he was introduced in the Czech Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.^[2][3]