Miroslav KLUC

Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Games Participations1
First Olympic GamesCortina d'Ampezzo 1956
Year of Birth1922

Biography

Already he began playing in the late thirties it was not until the resumption of Czechoslovakian ice hockey following World War 2 that Miroslav Kluc made his league debut ,by which time he was already 26. He spent a decade at the Chomutov club and was reported to have scored over 1100 goals for them with 226 coming in the 1949-50 season alone. Kluc was the league’s top scorer in 4 seasons between 1951 and 1956. Despite this goalscoring record he only appeared in two major tournaments, the 1953 World Championships and the 1956 Winter Olympics, and failed to win a medal at either. He certainly would have won a medal, possible gold, in 1953 but Czechoslovakia withdrew halfway through the tournament due to the death of their President. He rounded off his playing career as player-coach with CHZ Litvinov before concentrating solely on coaching, firstly by returning to Chomutov then in Switzerland and Yugoslavia. He won three titles in a row with Olimpija Ljubljana in Yugoslavia whilst simultaneously managing the Yugoslav national team. Kluc was elected to the Czech hockey hall of fame in 2011.

Olympic Results

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