András Sallay (born 15 December 1953) 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. A ...

from

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

. Competing with

Krisztina Regőczy Krisztina Regőczy (born 19 April 1955) is a former ice dancer from Hungary. Competing with András Sallay, she won the gold medal at the 1980 World Figure Skating Championships and the silver at that year's Winter Olympics. Regőczy coached i ...

, he won a

gold medal A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have b ...

at the 1980

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and a silver at that year's

Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games (), also known as the Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were held i ...

. Sallay is the vice-president and managing director of IMG Hungary. He has two daughters, Nóra and Laura.

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* * László Rózsaligeti. Magyar olimpiai lexikon ungarian Encyclopedia of the Olympics Budapest: Datus. 2000. 1953 births Living people Hungarian male ice dancers Figure skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics Figure skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters for 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 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen {{Hungary-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub