Slovenian forward Bogomir "Bogo" Jan passed away at the age of 74.

Born in 1944 in Jesenice during World War II in Yugoslavia, Jan spent his career with his hometown team HK Jesenice while playing football in summer. He joined HK Jesenice's senior team during the golden hockey era of the northern Slovenian steel city with 15 consecutive Yugoslav championships between 1957 and 1971.

He played most of his career as a forward but later converted to defence and became one of the best players in Jesenice. He eventually joined the Yugoslav national team and represented his country in 159 international games between 1961 and 1975 scoring 41 goals and 79 points.

Jan played for Yugoslavia at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympic Winter Games. The 9th-place finish in the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble as first-ranked team in the B-Pool was the best result for Yugoslavia in international ice hockey and was only topped after the split-up of Yugoslavia when Slovenia finished the 2014 Olympics in 7th place.

Jan also played in 10 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship B-Tool tournament. His
debut in an IIHF-sanction event was when Yugoslavia played in the B-Pool during
the 1963 Worlds in Stockholm. The youngest player of his team at 19, he was tied with two colleagues for the goal scoring lead of his team with five goals in six games.

His brothers Ivo and Milan Jan were his teammates both in Jesenice and on the Yugoslav national team. Ivo Jan, who represented Slovenia internationally until
2009, was his nephew and is the son of Ivo Jan Sr.

In 2007 Bogomir Jan was inducted into the Slovenian Hockey Hall of Fame.

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