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Curriculum vitae Gabriel Janoušek was born on November 29, 1940 in Turnov. His father Gabriel Janoušek Sr. spent much of the war as a prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp. After February 1948, his father did not accept the established communist regime, in 1952 he planned to emigrate. He was arrested again and convicted of trying to cross the state border. He was released in the early 1960s. The witness’s mother Božena also spent five years in prison. After the arrest of their parents, the witness and the older sister were left alone at home, and in the end, they ended up staying separately with their Prague relatives. He graduated from the electrical engineering school in Pilsen and joined a factory in Prague, graduating from high school in the evening for eleven years for workers. After completing compulsory military service, despite the poor staff profile, the authorities allowed him to study at CTU. He was professionally involved in canoeing, in 1965 together with Ludmila Sirotková they won a gold medal at the World Championships in Spittal, Austria. He competed with Milan Horyna at the Olympics in Munich in 1972. After graduating, he joined the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University at the Department of Hydraulics and Hydrology. After the Velvet Revolution, he taught at CTU and retired in 2011.
