Prague (AFP) - Czech ice-hockey legend Jaroslav Holik, who led his country's under-20 team to world titles in 2000 and 2001 as a coach, has died at the age of 72, local media said on Friday.
As a player, Holik helped former Czechoslovakia win the world championships in 1972 as the center of a line also comprising his younger brother Jiri.
Holik also has two silver and three bronze medals from world championships and an Olympic bronze from Sapporo 1972.
In 1965-1973, he scored 57 goals in 142 games for Czechoslovakia, which split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.