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31 unusual facts about Ostrava


1st International School of Ostrava

1st International School of Ostrava (1stISO) is a private, coeducational school located in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

2011 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 10,000 metres

The men's 10,000 metres at the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships were held in Ostrava on 14 July.

Aikaterini Stefanidi

At the following edition of the championships, the 2007 World Youths, held in Ostrava, she won silver in the pole vault with a jump of 4.25 m.

During the summer of 2011, she placed second at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Ostrava and third at Universiade (World University Games) in Shenzhen, China, after jumping a personal best of 4.45m to tie the Greek under-23 record.

Alexandra Proklova

Proklova then won gold in her next assignment in Ostrava, Czech Republic, finishing 15.59 points ahead of silver medalist and teammate Maria Sotskova.

Andrey Yeryomenko

His army occupied many cities and towns in Czechoslovakia, most notably Ostrava.

Brendan Morrison

Four years later, Morrison was selected again to the Canadian team for the 2004 IIHF World Championship in Prague and Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Čadca railway station

For the Czech Republic, there are many trains to Ostrava, Bohumin and Prague, and to Poland, there are trains towards the border crossing at Skalité/Zwardoń.

ČSD Class E 669.2

Currently the whole series is being systematically withdrawn in the Czech Republic with last units used in Ostrava.

Daniel Holzer

Daniel Holzer (born 18 August 1995) is a professional Czech football player currently playing for FC Baník Ostrava.

David Vychodil

David Vychodil (born March 25, 1980 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic) is a Czech professional ice hockey player, currently playing and coaching for Chiefs Leuven in Belgium .

Doug Bruno

Because many team members were still playing in the WNBA until just prior to the event, the team had only one day of practice with the entire team before leaving for Ostrava and Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

Gideon Gathimba

His personal best times are 3:33.63 minutes in the 1500 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Rabat; 3:52.98 minutes in the mile run, achieved in June 2009 in Ostrava; and 7:49.65 minutes in the 3000 metres (indoor), achieved in January 2009 in Glasgow.

Hans Zdražila

Hans Zdražila (born 10 March 1941 in Moravská Ostrava) is a former Czechoslovak weightlifter and Olympic champion.

I European Union Piano Competition

The I European Union Piano Competition took place in Prague and Ostrava from June 24–29, 2009, as part of the cultural program accompanying the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's qualification

^Prague and Ostrava are the sites for 2012 World Championship only, thus the site where qualification through the rankings is determined.

Jan Škrdlík

Jan Škrdlík (* 31 October 1964 Ostrava) is a Czech cellist, of the younger school of the Czech cello players, an artist, a writer and a teacher.

Julie Labonté

She also came in first at the 2011 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships, She competed at the 2011 IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Deagu, South Korea, and tenth at the 2007 IAAF World Youth Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic, and 14th at the 2008 IAAF World Junior Championship in Poland .

Kirsten Frisch

In 2003, they won the junior silver medal at the U.S. Championships and were assigned to the 2003 World Junior Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic, where they placed 12th.

Maria Sotskova

Sotskova won another silver medal in her next assignment in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

Miners' Union in the Czechoslovak Republic

In the Ostrava-Karviná coalfields, three separate branches had been formed, one at Moravska Ostrava, one Polish branch at Karviná and one communist-dominated branch at Orlov.

Oldřich Daněk

After graduating from High School in Ostrava, he studied at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU).

Pavel Srníček

Born in Ostrava, Srníček was originally signed by Newcastle in December 1990 on loan from Banik Ostrava by manager Jim Smith, who left within months to be succeeded by Ossie Ardiles - by this time his transfer had been made permanent, and he was soon established as the club's first-choice goalkeeper after the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager in February 1992.

Radim Wozniak

Wozniak, a native of Ostrava, started his football career in the clubs in this city.

Robert Szpak

He achieved a new personal best of 78.33 m in June 2009 in Ostrava.

Sergey Mudrov

His personal best jump was 2.30 metres, achieved in July 2011 in Ostrava.

Silesian Voivodeship

The voivodship capital enjoys good railway and road connections with Gdańsk (motorway A1) and Ostrava (motorway A1), Kraków (motorway A4), Wrocław (motorway A4), Łódź (motorway A1) and Warsaw.

Sylwester Ambroziak

He has exhibited his work all around Europe and North America since 1986 including Warsaw, Stockholm, Montreal, Vienna, Düsseldorf, Ostrava, Poznan, Stockholm, London and Amsterdam.

Tatra National Park, Poland

Current environmental threats include: the proximity of the fast-developing town of Zakopane; and air pollution from the industrial zones in Kraków, Ostrava, and Orava.

Tomáš Grigar

Tomáš Grigar (born 1 February 1983 in Ostrava) is a Czech football goalkeeper currently playing for FK Teplice in the Czech Republic.

Věra Flasarová

Věra Flasarová (born on 19 December 1952 in Ostrava) is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia; part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left party group in the European Parliament.


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2008 Men's World Floorball Championships

All group stage matches were played in Ostrava's ČEZ Aréna, and all playoff matches were played in Prague's Prague's Sparta Arena.

2009 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships

The competition was divided into two tournaments, with Tournament B held from 15 to 21 March in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and Tournament A held from 9 to 16 May in Ostrava, the Czech Republic.

Andrzej Jerzy Lech

On September 11, 2002, his multi-media show dedicated to the WTC was shown simultaneously in 14 galleries in Poland, in Ostrava, the Czech Republic and in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Ernst Grünfeld

He was 1st= in Vienna (1920) with Savielly Tartakower; 1st in Margate (1923); 1st in Meran (1924); 1st in Budapest (1926) with Mario Monticelli; 1st in Vienna (1927) and he shared first spot in the Vienna tournaments of 1928 and 1933 (Trebitsch Memorial)—the former with Sándor Takács and the latter with Hans Müller; and finally he was 1st in the tournament at Ostrava of 1933.

Gregory Mertl

Previously his music has reached audiences in France, at the Festival du Moulin d’Andé and the France Musique radio station, Belgium, where he placed third at the Harelbeke International Wind Ensemble Composition Competition (2004), and the Czech Republic, where he was featured composer of the Ostrava Oboe Festival in both 2005 and 2009.

Jeřábek

Rostislav Jeřábek (born 1962, Ostrava), a Czech professional footballer

Lubomír Puček

In March 2006, Regional court of Ostrava Region declared Puček was guilty of accepting bribe for fixing this match, and was fined 70,000 CZK.

Paweł Przytocki

He conducted Budapest Concert Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica de Xalapa in Mexico, Real Filharmonia de Galicia in Spain, Capella Istropolitana in Bratislava, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle, Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra Ankara, Everett Symphony Orchestra in the United States and Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava.

Polák

Roman Polák (born 1986, Ostrava), a professional Czech ice hockey defenceman

Sylvia Fowles

In 2010, Fowles was named to the national team which competed in the World Championships in Ostrava, and Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.

Zuzana Čížková

She has created dozens of monumental sculptures for public areas (for example in Čížkov, Ostrava—Landek, Brandýs nad Labem, Poděbrady, Prague - Prosek and Prague - Smíchov.)