Pál Vásárhelyi (18 June 1938 – 14 September 2008) was a Hungarian competitive

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 ...

. With Györgyi Korda, he was the 1964 Winter Universiade champion, the 1964

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champion, and a seven-time Hungarian national champion. The duo competed at four

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and six

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. They placed among the European top five in

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(Budapest, Hungary),

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(Grenoble, France), and

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(Moscow, Soviet Union). Vásárhelyi skated at Budapesti Lokomotív and Budapesti Spartacus. He retired from competition in 1965. He later worked as a library director at the

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Competitive highlights

With Korda

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vasarhelyi, Pal 1938 births 2008 deaths Hungarian male ice dancers Figure skaters from Budapest Universiade medalists in figure skating FISU World University Games gold medalists for Hungary Competitors at the 1964 Winter Universiade 20th-century Hungarian people 21st-century Hungarian people