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Vladimír Dzurilla

1942 - 1995

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Vladimír Dzurilla (2 August 1942 in Bratislava, Slovakia – 27 July 1995 in Düsseldorf, Germany) was a Slovak ice hockey goaltender playing for Czechoslovakia. Dzurilla, a refrigerator repairman by profession, was goalie for the Czechoslovak national team for over 16 years, winning three gold, three silver and four bronze medals at world championships as well as one silver and two bronze Olympic medals. However, in most of these tournaments Dzurilla and Jiří Holeček were battling to be Czechoslovakia's top goaltender and each were given their share of games.For North American fans, he is mostly known for stopping 29 shots in a 1-0 win over Canada in the 1976 Canada Cup (where the Czechoslovaks finished second).Dzurilla was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 1998. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimír Dzurilla has received more than 37,033 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Vladimír Dzurilla is the 128th most popular athlete (down from 95th in 2019), the 79th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 75th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Slovak Athlete.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Over the past year Vladimír Dzurilla has had the most page views in the with 8,440 views, followed by Slovak (6,701), and Russian (4,783). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Norwegian (Nynorsk) (56.94%), Serbian (43.83%), and Ukrainian (27.25%)

Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Vladimír Dzurilla ranks 128 out of 6,025. Before him are Esther Brand, Rudolf Bauer, Tilly Fleischer, Galina Chistyakova, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, and Stamata Revithi. After him are Thomas Hicks, Gaston Reiff, Hubert Van Innis, Anatoliy Bondarchuk, Waldemar Cierpinski, and Lina Radke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Vladimír Dzurilla ranks 229. Before him are Chris Sarandon, Marco Rota, Brian Kernighan, Marta Kubišová, Günter Wallraff, and Jorge Ben. After him are Juan Gisbert Sr., Björn Nordqvist, Rinus Israël, Montserrat Figueras, Piero Marini, and André Vingt-Trois. Among people deceased in 1995, Vladimír Dzurilla ranks 114. Before him are Fred West, J. Presper Eckert, Annie M. G. Schmidt, Erik Nilsson, Matti Pellonpää, and Ken Saro-Wiwa. After him are Viktoria Brezhneva, Albert W. Tucker, Alberto Burri, Edith Pargeter, Józef Maria Bocheński, and James Samuel Coleman.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Vladimír Dzurilla ranks 79 out of 418. Before him are Štefan Tiso (1897), Jozef Vengloš (1936), Marián Čalfa (1946), Alajos Szokolyi (1871), Anton Ondruš (1950), and Maximilian Hell (1720). After him are Marek Hamšík (1987), Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871), Andrej Kvašňák (1936), Artúr Görgei (1818), Martina Hingis (1980), and Aurel Stodola (1859).

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Among ATHLETES In Slovakia

Among athletes born in Slovakia, Vladimír Dzurilla ranks 2. Before him are Alajos Szokolyi (1871). After him are Imre Németh (1917), József Csermák (1932), Pavel Schmidt (1930), Ferenc Sidó (1923), Béla Szepes (1903), Dušan Pašek (1960), Jozef Pribilinec (1960), Imrich Bugár (1955), Michal Martikán (1979), and Elena Kaliská (1972).

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