I learned to shoot in my childhood, that‘s why I was successful in biathlon
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Bohuslav Maleňák was born on September 13, 1933 in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm. His mother Františka Maleňáková was one of the renowned embroiderers from Zubří, his father Josef was employed as a gamekeeper on the Hradisko farm. It was a large farmstead on the outskirts of Rožnov, which was run by the manager, Austrian Karel Umlauf. Bohuslav Maleňák worked in agriculture from childhood and helped his father to chase and feed the animals in the forests. Hradisko was a prosperous and rich estate. After the liberation of Rožnov, however, the Red Army plundered it. Bohuslav graduated from the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport in Prague. His great hobby was ski jumping. He and the Solanský brothers built a ski jumping hill at Hradisko on their own and hundreds of people came there to watch their jumps. In 1955 he became a member of the Dukla Liberec club and represented the club in ski jumping and biathlon. For many years he taught physical education at the Secondary School of Agriculture in Rožnov.
