László Szollás

László Szollás
Rotter and Szollás in 1933
Personal information
Full name	László Szollás
Country represented	Hungary
Born	November 13, 1907 Budapest
Died	October 4, 1980 (aged 72) Budapest
Former partner	Emília Rotter
Medal record Competitor for  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

Olympic medal record
Figure skating
Competitor for  Hungary
	1932 Lake Placid	Pairs
	1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Pairs

László Szollás (November 13, 1907, in Budapest, Hungary – October 4, 1980) was a Hungarian pair skater. With partner Emília Rotter he won the World Figure Skating Championship four times in five years (1931, 1933, 1934, and 1935), and were the 1932 World silver medalists. They were the 1934 European Champions and 1930 & 1931 silver medalists. They represented Hungary at the 1932 Winter Olympics and at the 1936 Winter Olympics, winning two bronze medals.

Szollas attended the Ludovika Military Academy in the Horthy era. Subsequently he fought against the Soviet Union on the eastern front in WW2. He became a prisoner of war and was imprisoned in a POW camp for 4 years in Siberia.^[1] 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.

After retirement, he attended Semmelweis Medical School in Budapest and became a sports medicine doctor at the Sport Korhaz (Hospital for Professional Sports) in Budapest, Hungary. His partner, Emília Rotter was elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

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

References

1. Hilary Evans, Arild Gjerde, Jeroen Heijmans, and Bill Mallon. "László Szollás Biography and Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved November 4, 2009.

• Pairs on Ice profile
• Jews in Sports bio
• "Skate Canada Results Book – Volume 1–1896–1973" (PDF). Skate Canada.
• "World Figure Skating Championships Results: Pairs Medalists" (PDF). International Skating Union.
• "European Figure Skating Championships Results: Pairs Medalists" (PDF). International Skating Union.

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