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László (Ladislaus) Szollás (13 November 1907 – 4 October 1980) was a Hungarian world champion and Olympic medalist pair skater.

László Szollás
Rotter and Szollás in 1933
Personal information
Full name	László Szollás
Country represented	Hungary
Born	(1907-11-13)13 November 1907 Budapest, Hungary
Died	4 October 1980(1980-10-04) (aged 72) Budapest, Hungary
Former partner	Emília Rotter
Retired	1936
Medal record Representing  Hungary Pairs Figure skating Olympic Games 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Pairs 1932 Lake Placid Pairs World Championships 1935 Budapest Pairs 1934 Helsinki Pairs 1933 Stockholm Pairs 1932 Montreal Pairs 1931 Berlin Pairs European Championships 1934 Prague Pairs 1931 St. Moritz Pairs 1930 Vienna Pairs

Early life

Szollas was Jewish.[1][2][3][4] He attended the Ludovika Military Academy in the Horthy era.^{[citation needed]}.

Figure skating career

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

Subsequently, he fought against the Soviet Union on the eastern front in WW2^{[citation needed]}. He became a prisoner of war and was imprisoned in a POW camp for 4 years in Siberia.[6] 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]}.

After retirement, he attended Semmelweis Medical School in Budapest and earned a medical degree at the Péter Pázmány University and became a sports medicine doctor at the Sport Korhaz (Hospital for Professional Sports) in Budapest and a surgeon at the Országos Sportegészségügyi Intézet in Budapest.[7] After the war he returned to Hungary and worked as a physician in the National Institute of Physical Education and Sports Hygiene in Budapest and served as President of the Hungarian Skating Association.[7]

Hall of Fame

He and his partner, Emília Rotter, were elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.[4][7]

Competitive highlights

(with Rotter)

Event	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935	1936
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

• List of select Jewish figure skaters
• List of flag bearers for Hungary at the Olympics

References

External links

• 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.

На других языках

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[de] László Szollás

László Szollás [.mw-parser-output .IPA a{text-decoration:none}ˈlaːsloː ˈsolːaːʃ] (* 13. November 1907 in Budapest, Österreich-Ungarn; † 4. Oktober 1980 in Budapest, Ungarn) war ein ungarischer Eiskunstläufer, der im Paarlauf startete.

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- [en] László Szollás

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[fr] László Szollás

László Szollás, né le 13 novembre 1907 à Budapest et mort le 4 octobre 1980 dans la même ville, était un patineur artistique hongrois. Sa partenaire en couple était Emilia Rotter. Ils ont été champions d'Europe et 4 fois champions du monde. Ils ont également gagné deux médailles de bronze aux Jeux olympiques.

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[it] László Szollás

László Szollás (Budapest, 13 novembre 1907 – Budapest, 4 ottobre 1980) è stato un pattinatore artistico su ghiaccio ungherese.

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[ru] Соллаш, Ласло

Ласло Соллаш (венг. Szollás László; 13 ноября 1907 года, Будапешт, Венгрия — 4 октября 1980 года, Будапешт, Венгрия) — венгерский фигурист, выступавший в парном разряде. В паре с Эмилией Роттер он — двукратный бронзовый призёр зимних Олимпийских игр в Лэйк-Плэсиде и Гармиш-Партенкирхене, трёхкратный чемпион мира 1933 — 1935, чемпион Европы 1934, и шестикратный чемпион Венгрии 1931 — 1936.

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