László Szollás
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Full name | László Szollás | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Budapest, Hungary | 13 November 1907||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 4 October 1980 Budapest, Hungary | (aged 72)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Former partner | Emília Rotter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 1936 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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 |
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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
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Hilary Evans; Arild Gjerde; Jeroen Heijmans; Bill Mallon. "László Szollás Biography and Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2009.
- ^ a b c Guard, Skate (14 February 2018). "Skate Guard: Two Hits Of Hungary: The Emília Rotter And László Szollás Story". Skateguard1.blogspot.com. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
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.
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