László Szollás
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| Full name | László Szollás | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 November 1907 Budapest, Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 4 October 1980 (aged 72) Budapest, Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1936 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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László (Ladislaus) Szollás (13 November 1907 – 4 October 1980) was a Hungarian world champion and Olympic medalist pair skater.
Early life
[edit]Szollás was Jewish.[1][2][3][4] He attended the Ludovika Military Academy in the Horthy era.[citation needed].
Figure skating career
[edit]With partner Emília Rotter he won the World Figure Skating Championship four times in five years (1931, 1933, 1934, and 1935), and they were the 1932 World silver medalists.[5] They were also the 1934 European Champions, and 1930 and 1931 silver medalists.[5]
They represented Hungary at the 1932 Winter Olympics and at the 1936 Winter Olympics, winning two bronze medals.[5]
Later life
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After retirement, Szollás attended Semmelweis Medical School in Budapest and earned a medical degree at the Péter Pázmány University.[6] He joined the military in 1934 and became a military doctor in 1936. From 1945 until 1948, he was a prisoner of war, first by the Americans and then later the Soviets.[7] Upon returning to Hungary the Hungarian Stalinist government nationalized nearly all of his assets, including a large rental apartment building in Budapest's 7th district.[citation needed].
Once he returned to Hungary, he spent a short time as a physician at Kossuth Academy, then in 1951 became a surgeon at the Országos Sportegészségügyi Intézet (National Institute of Sports Medicine) in Budapest. He also returned to skating as a coach and judge.[7] He coached the pair Marianna and László Nagy after their coach was imprisoned due to a skater's defection in 1950, and he served as President of the Hungarian Skating Association from 1956 to 1961.[8]
Hall of Fame
[edit]He and his partner, Emília Rotter, were elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.[4]
Competitive highlights
[edit](with Rotter)
| Event | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 |
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| Winter Olympic Games | 3rd | 3rd | ||||||
| World Championships | 5th | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | ||
| European Championships | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | |||||
| Hungarian Championships | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Wiener, Julie. "Jews in the Olympics". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ^ Jews in the Gym: Judaism, Sports, and Athletics. Purdue University Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1-55753-629-7. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ^ Bob Wechsler (2008). Day by Day in Jewish Sports History. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-88125-969-8. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Laszlo Szollas". Jewishsports.net. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ^ a b c Hines, James R. (22 April 2011). Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating - James R. Hines - Google Books. ISBN 978-0-8108-7085-7. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- ^ Teréz, Baloghné Medvegy; Magasházyné, Székesvári Ildikó (2006). Molnár, László (ed.). A Pázmány Péter Tudományegyetem Orvostudományi Karán végzett orvostanhallgatók jegyzéke 1921-1951 [List of medical students who graduated from the Pázmány Péter University Faculty of Medicine 1921-1951] (in Hungarian). Budapest: Semmelweiss Publishing House. p. 164. ISBN 9789639214996.
- ^ a b Sallay, Gergely Pál (2012). "Magyar katonák az újkori olimpiai játékokon" [Hungarian Soldiers at the Modern Olympic Games] (PDF). Hadtörténelmi Közlemények (in Hungarian). 125 (2): 335–374.
- ^ "Jégtánc története" [History of figure skating]. Magyar Országos Korcsolyázó Szövetség (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2024-02-28.
External links
[edit]- Pairs on Ice profile
- Jews in Sports bio
- "Skate Canada Results Book – Volume 1–1896–1973" (PDF). Skate Canada. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 November 2010.
- "World Figure Skating Championships Results: Pairs Medalists" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 July 2007.
- "European Figure Skating Championships Results: Pairs Medalists" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2007.
| International | |
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| National | |
- 1907 births
- 1980 deaths
- Hungarian male pair skaters
- Figure skaters at the 1932 Winter Olympics
- Figure skaters at the 1936 Winter Olympics
- Olympic figure skaters for Hungary
- Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary
- Figure skaters from Budapest
- Olympic medalists in figure skating
- World Figure Skating Championships medalists
- European Figure Skating Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1932 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics
- Jewish Hungarian sportspeople
- Semmelweis University alumni
- Hungarian military personnel of World War II
- Hungarian prisoners of war
- World War II prisoners of war held by the Soviet Union