Jan Vaník

{{short description|Czech footballer}}

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{{Infobox football biography

|name = Jan Vaník

|image = Jan Vaník.jpg

|caption = Jan Vaník in 1922

|fullname =

|birth_date = {{birth date|1891|5|7|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Prague, Austria-Hungary

|death_date = {{death date and age|1950|6|14|1891|5|7|df=yes}}

|death_place =

|position = Forward

| youthyears1 = 1907–1908

| youthclubs1 = SK Letná

| youthyears2 = 1908–1910

| youthclubs2 = SK Bubeneč

| years1 = 1910–1916

| clubs1 = Sparta Prague

| caps1 =

| goals1 =

| years2 = 1916–1926

| clubs2 = Slavia Prague

| caps2 =

| goals2 =

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|nationalyears1 = 1917

|nationalteam1 = Austria

|nationalcaps1 = 2

|nationalgoals1 = 0

|nationalyears2 = 1920–1925

|nationalteam2 = Czechoslovakia

|nationalcaps2 = 12

|nationalgoals2 = 10

}}

Jan Vaník (7 May 1891[http://nv.fotbal.cz/reprezentace/reprezentace-a/statistiky/viewstat3.asp?name=VanikJan Profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013211714/http://nv.fotbal.cz/reprezentace/reprezentace-a/statistiky/viewstat3.asp?name=VanikJan |date=13 October 2018 }} at the official website of FAČR[http://www.digitalniknihovna.cz/mzk/view/uuid:3f37bd10-fea5-11de-b377-000d606f5dc6?page=uuid:dcbfcdd0-fc7e-11de-8e17-000d606f5dc6 Jan Vaník padesátníkem (Jan Vaník turns fifty)] in Moravská orlice newspaper, 8 May 1941. – 12 June 1950) was a footballer who appeared for both the Austria and Czechoslovakia national teams.{{NFT player}} He competed in the men's tournament at the 1920 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/jan-vanik-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418112310/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/jan-vanik-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Jan Vaník Olympic Results |accessdate=1 October 2018}} On a club level, he played for AC Sparta Prague and SK Slavia Prague,{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/27393 |title=Jan Vaník |work=Olympedia |access-date=17 August 2021}} becoming the top goalscorer of the Czechoslovak First League in the 1925 season.