Sportsperson of the Year (Czechoslovakia) the prize 20 times, and women's teams won it 3 times. From 1970 to 1977, and in 1979, the team prize was not awarded. The team award was won back to back twice, by the men's national ice hockey team in 1968 and 1969, and by the men's national ski-relay team in 1988 and 1989. Sportsperson of the Year (Czechoslovakia) Sportsperson of the Year (, ) was a prize awarded annually to the best athletes of Czechoslovakia from 1959 to 1992 by the Club of Czechoslovak Sports Journalists. The first winner was white-water canoer Vladimír Jirásek. From 1961 the prize
Rugby union in Czechoslovakia Slávie and AFK Žižka Brno, with the former winning 31–17. Both of these teams were trained by Sekora. Czechoslovakia was not invited to the first Rugby World Cup in 1987, and did not qualify for the second in 1991. Rugby union like many other sports, was long to be connected in the public mind with the less savoury aspects of Communism: The breakup of Czechoslovakia led to the similar breakup of its sporting bodies, with separate Czech and Slovak teams etc. The SFR Czechoslovakia side was, strictly speaking, a multinational side, consisting as it did of representatives of all the