Krisztina Regőczy (born 19 April 1955) is a former

ice dancer Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. Ac ...

from

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. Competing with

András Sallay András Sallay (born 15 December 1953) is a former ice dancer from Hungary. Competing with Krisztina Regőczy, he won a gold medal at the 1980 World Figure Skating Championships and a silver at that year's Winter Olympics The Winter Olymp ...

, she won the gold medal at the 1980

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and the silver at that year's

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. Regőczy coached in the United States for a number of years before returning to

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. She is the figure skating sports director for the International Skating Union.

Results

(ice dance with

)

References

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Regőczy Krisztina nem felejti Lake Placid-et

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, 2007.

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1955 births Living people Hungarian female ice dancers Figure skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics Figure skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters of Hungary Olympic silver medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in figure skating World Figure Skating Championships medalists European Figure Skating Championships medalists Medalists at the 1980 Winter Olympics {{Hungary-figure-skating-bio-stub