Jiří Dopita

Jiří Dopita is a Czech ice hockey centre, born on 2 December 1968 in Šumperk in what is now the Czech Republic. He stands 192 cm tall and weighed about 98 kg, and his club career took him to North America, where he is listed with the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League. He is best known as a member of the Czech national team that won the men's ice hockey tournament at the 1998 Winter Olympics. He returned to the Olympic tournament four years later at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where the Czech team finished tied for fifth place. Beyond the Games he was a regular at the Ice Hockey World Championships and collected five medals there: gold in 1996, 2000 and 2001, and bronze in 1997 and 1998. The record of these results, together with his birth details, club affiliation and Olympic participations, comes from his Olympedia biography.