Jaroslav Drobný
(1921-2001)
Tennis and ice hockey player
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Jaroslav Drobný (12 October 1921 - 13 September 2001) was a World No. 1 amateur tennis and ice hockey champion. He left Czechoslovakia in 1949 and travelled as an Egyptian citizen before becoming a citizen of the United Kingdom in 1959, where he died in 2001. In 1954, he became the first and, to date, only player with African citizenship to win the Wimbledon Championships (aside from dual citizen Roger Federer, who holds South African citizenship but officially represents only Switzerland in sports).
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21 October 1921 Prague, Czechoslovakia
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13 September 2001 (aged 79) Tooting, London, United Kingdom
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| Zodiac | Libra |
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