In Dubnica and its surroundings, they always had a patent for the upbringing of great athletes. They supplied the world with one star after another. Several hockey celebrities even grew up together in one of Dubrovnik's settlements.

One of the most important personalities of the city is undoubtedly the four-time master of Czechoslovakia, the double champion of Slovakia and Jan Zachar, the Olympic winner in 1952 from Helsinki. A small big man of Slovak and world boxing still lives in Nová Dubnica and celebrates his 90th birthday in August.

The school benches in Dubnica were also run by the cross-country skiing shooter Natália Prokopová, but the hockey players are the most representative. The tricked address where you could find their surnames on the bells is Kollar's Street. "One cried out of the window and we were all out there," remembers Tomáš Tatar, who used to be with Paul Demetrom, but also with Radoslav Tybor or Maria Bližňák.

They played together in childhood, they grew up together and are still hiking with hockey sticks on the asphalt ground during hockeyball matches. Even out of season when they tour the memory of a friend of Michael Haviara. Ivanka Baranka and the Stanley Cup Double Champion Tomáš Kopecký, who comes from Nová Dubnice, is also a member of the April Hockey Club, and in 2010 he ate the brandy soup from the famous cup. Not only Dubnica but also the whole of Slovakia greeted the report of the tragedy of 2011, when the hooligan legend of Pavol Demitr died in Russia. In Dubnica, he named him the elementary and elementary school he attended.