Emília Rotter (8 September 1906 in
Budapest, Hungary – 28 January 2003) was a
Hungarian pair skater
Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...
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With partner
László Szollás
László (Ladislaus) Szollás (13 November 1907 – 4 October 1980) was a Hungarian world champion and Olympic medalist pair skater.
Early life
Szollas was Jewish. He attended the Ludovika Military Academy in the Horthy era..
Figure skating c ...
she 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
Hungary competed at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.
Medalists
Figure skating
;Pairs
References
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Olympic Winter Games 1932, full results by sports-reference.com
Nations at the 1932 Winter Olympics
1932
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and
at the 1936 Winter Olympics, winning two bronze medals.
Rotter was Jewish, and was inducted into the
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame ( he, יד לאיש הספורט היהודי, translit=Yad Le'ish HaSport HaYehudi) was opened July 7, 1981 in Netanya, Israel. It honors Jewish athletes and their accomplishments from anywhere arou ...
in 1995.
Emilia Rotter
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
Competitive highlights
(with Szollás)
See also
* List of select Jewish figure skaters
References
Pairs on Ice profile
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1906 births
2003 deaths
Hungarian female pair skaters
Figure skaters at the 1932 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1936 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skaters of Hungary
Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary
Figure skaters from Budapest
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
European Figure Skating Championships medalists
Jewish Hungarian sportspeople
Medalists at the 1932 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics
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