Grandmother Marie Hovorková, née Koutníková

Dad Miroslav Hovorka as a little boy

Little Zdeněk Hovorka with his sister Zuzana in Pilsen, Slovany, around 1964

Dad Miroslav Hovorka

Congratulations to dad Miroslav Hovorka (left) from a patient in the room on his marriage to his second wife Stanislava Taušová on 9 November 1999, nine days before his last breath; he married her so that she would have a decent pension

Zdeněk Hovorka (right) and his father Miroslav Hovorka (middle) probably in 1978 at the Water Works event, during which they raced down the Vltava

Zdeněk Hovorka after 2000

Mum Marie Hovorková, nee Belzová, with her dog in Pilsen liberated by American soldiers

Zdeněk Hovorka in his youth

Uncle Robert Belza, successful flyweight weight lifter

Uncle Robert Belza, successful flyweight weight lifter

Miroslav and Marie Hovorka, parents of Zdeněk Hovorka

Marie Hovorka, née Belzová, mother of Zdeněk Hovorka

Miroslav and Marie Hovorka, parents of Zdeněk Hovorka

Miroslav and Marie Hovorka, parents of Zdeněk Hovorka, who used to ride their Jawa motorcycle together

Twelve-year-old Zdeněk Hovorka on Gerlachovský štít

Zdeněk Hovorka (top centre) on practice in Pilsner Urquell in 1981

Mum Marie Hovorková, née Belzová, in Pilsen in a car of the liberated American army

Mum Marie Hovorková, née Belzová, in Pilsen with a soldier of the American Liberation Army

American soldiers in Pilsen

Sixteen-year-old Zdeněk Hovorka

Zdeněk Hovorka with his classmates Jiří Hodl and Jiří Strnádek

Zdeněk Hovorka at work in the Dobré Štěstí mine near Dobřany in approximately 1987

Zdeněk Hovorka (right in shirt) with classmates

Dad Miroslav Hovorka in his sixties during the construction of a water dam in Sidi Yacoub in Algieria