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


Early life

Szollás was Jewish. 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 medal A silver medal, in sports and other similar areas involving competition, is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, ...
ists. They were also the 1934 European Champions, and 1930 and 1931 silver medalists. They represented
Hungary at the 1932 Winter Olympics 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 ...
and at the 1936 Winter Olympics, winning two
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s.


Later life

After retirement, Szollás attended Semmelweis Medical School in Budapest and earned a medical degree at the Royal Hungarian Pázmány Péter University. He joined the military in 1934 and became a military doctor in 1936. From 1945 until 1948, he was a
prisoner of war A prisoner of war (POW) is a person held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of war for a ...
, first by the Americans and then later the Soviets. 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. 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.


Hall of Fame

He and his partner, Emília Rotter, were elected to the
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (IJSHOF) () is the international hall of fame for Jewish athletes and special contributors to the world of sport. The purpose of the IJSHOF is to honor Jewish individuals, worldwide, who have accompli ...
in 1995.


Competitive highlights

(with Rotter)


See also

* List of select Jewish figure skaters *
List of flag bearers for Hungary at the Olympics This is a list of flag bearers who have represented Hungary at the Olympics.Pairs on Ice profile

Jews in Sports bio
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Szollas, Laszlo 1907 births 1980 deaths Hungarian male pair skaters Figure skaters at the 1932 Winter Olympics Figure skaters at the 1936 Winter Olympics Olympic figure skaters for 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 Medalists at the 1932 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics Jewish Hungarian sportspeople Semmelweis University alumni Hungarian military personnel of World War II Hungarian prisoners of war World War II prisoners of war held by the Soviet Union 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen