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Karel Gut (16 September 1927 – 6 January 2014) was a Czechoslovakia ice hockey player and coach, who later worked in sports management. He was born in Prague and later played in the Czechoslovak Extraliga. While Gut played soccer in his youth, he was better known as an, "offensive-minded hockey defenseman". Gut was inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 1998, and has also been inducted into the Czechoslovak Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.
As a player, he won three bronze medals at the Ice Hockey World Championships, first in 1955 where he was voted the tournament's best defenseman, then again in 1957 and in 1959. Gut also made three appearances at the Winter Olympics, and six World Cup appearances.
Between 1973 and 1979 Gut was the coach for the then Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team who he led on to win the gold at the Ice Hockey World Championships in 1976 in Poland and 1977 in Austria.
In the late 1970s, after having observed Roger Neilson of the Toronto Maple Leafs using ringette rings and concepts during a practice in Canada, Gut went back to Czechoslovakia and introduced and modified these ideas and applied them to the training system for the national men's team's practices, which was then also applied as a training aid for Czechoslovakia's university ice hockey teams.
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