Sarajevo was golden silver for us
Stáhnout obrázek
Pavel Richter was born on 5 December 1954 in Prague. He comes from the family of Josef Pobuda, a member of Orel organisation, imprisoned by the communists. Since childhood, he and his younger brother, following their father‘s example, devoted themselves to hockey. He started out at the Motorlet Praha club, where he began playing for the adult A team in 1971. After two years, he was offered a transfer to Sparta Prague, where he eventually played 11 seasons, with the exception of the 1979/1980 season, when he spent his military service in Dukla Trenčín. In 1973 he won bronze medals with the Czechoslovak team at the European Junior Championships in Leningrad. In 1978, he participated in the World Ice Hockey Championships for the first time, where the national team won silver medals. However, the greatest success of his career occurred in the mid-1980s when, after winning valuable metals at the World Championships, the national team achieved gold medals at the 1985 World Championships. This success was preceded by winning silver medals at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, where the Czechoslovakia lost only to the Soviet Union in the final group. In the mid-1980s, he received an offer from abroad and started playing in Switzerland. During his first season he got injured and moved to Germany, where he played until 1992. After his active career, he started coaching - first at HC Slavia Praha and then at HC Sparta Praha. For more than 25 years he worked as a hockey expert for Czech Television. At the time of filming in 2025 he lived in Prague.
