László Szollás

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

László Szollás
Szollás in 1935
Full nameLászló Szollás
Born(1907-11-13)13 November 1907
Budapest, Hungary
Died4 October 1980(1980-10-04) (aged 72)
Budapest, Hungary
Figure skating career
Country Hungary
Retired1936
Medal record
Representing  Hungary
Pairs Figure skating
Olympic Games
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Pairs
1932 Lake Placid Pairs
World Championships
1935 BudapestPairs
1934 HelsinkiPairs
1933 StockholmPairs
1932 MontrealPairs
1931 BerlinPairs
European Championships
1934 PraguePairs
1931 St. MoritzPairs
1930 ViennaPairs

Early life

Szollás was Jewish.[1][2][3][4] He attended the Ludovika Military Academy in the Horthy era..

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

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..

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)

Event 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936
Winter Olympic Games3rd3rd
World Championships5th1st2nd1st1st1st
European Championships2nd2nd1st
Hungarian Championships1st1st1st1st1st1st

See also

References
  1. Wiener, Julie. "Jews in the Olympics". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  2. Jews in the Gym: Judaism, Sports, and Athletics. Purdue University Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1-55753-629-7. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  3. Bob Wechsler (2008). Day by Day in Jewish Sports History. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-88125-969-8. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  4. "Laszlo Szollas". Jewishsports.net. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. "Jégtánc története" [History of figure skating]. Magyar Országos Korcsolyázó Szövetség (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2024-02-28.
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