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László Szollás
Hungarian figure skater From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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László (Ladislaus) Szollás (13 November 1907 – 4 October 1980) was a Hungarian world champion and Olympic medalist pair skater.
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Early life
Szollás 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
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After retirement, Szollás attended Semmelweis Medical School in Budapest and earned a medical degree at the Royal Hungarian Pázmány Péter 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
He and his partner, Emília Rotter, were elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.[4]
Competitive highlights
(with Rotter)
See also
References
External links
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