Sports News from Slovakia

(Fri 02 May 03) In the Group A match at the Ice Hockey World Championship in Helsinki on Monday, , Slovakia defeated Japan 10:1. The manager of the Slovak...

(Tue 29 Apr 03) Slovakia's ice hockey team won the opening match against Ukraine at the world championship in Finland. The reigning world champions cruised past Ukraine 9-3. Ziggy...

(Mon 14 Apr 03) The first Prime Minister that ran and finished the London Marathon was Mikulas Dzurinda (photos from SME) In this 18th marathon of his career,...

(Tue 28 Jan 03) The current WTA ranking shows that the 19-years-old Daniela Hantuchova is on the fifth position after she went to the quarter-finals of the Australian...

(Fri 24 Jan 03) Marian Hossa, a 24-years-old ice-hockey player, who was born in Stara Lubovna (nowadays in Slovakia), and currently serving as right wing for the Ottawa Senators...

(Sun 05 Jan 03) After having beaten Switzerland (3-0) and Belarus (11-1) and lost to Russia (0-4) and USA (1-3), Slovakia's juniors have won their place in the quarter-finals...

(Sun 01 Dec 02) Slovakia opened its own Ice-Hockey Hall of Fame in Bratislava on Saturday presenting famous players such as Vaclav Nedomansky, Vladimir Dzurilla, Ladislav Trojak, Michal Poloni,...

(Wed 13 Nov 02) Jan Filc, the coach who led the national Ice-Hockey team to the first post-1992 World Championship title in 2002 resigned today to his post, daily...

(Mon 04 Nov 02) On Sunday, President Rudolf Schuster congratulated the Slovak tennis team for its excellent sport performance during the Fed Cup final in Maspalomas, Gran Canaria. The...

(Sat 02 Nov 02) Vlado told us about an interesting article at Yahoo! News (story by Simon Cambers) about "the tall, stylish 19-year-old, who won the first WTA...