László Szollás

Szollás in 1935
Personal information
Full name	László Szollás
Born	(1907-11-13)13 November 1907 Budapest, Hungary
Died	4 October 1980(1980-10-04) (aged 72) Budapest, Hungary
Figure skating career
Country	Hungary
Retired	1936
Medal record Representing Hungary PairsFigure skating Olympic Games 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Pairs 1932 Lake Placid Pairs World Championships 1935 Budapest Pairs 1934 Helsinki Pairs 1933 Stockholm Pairs 1932 Montreal Pairs 1931 Berlin Pairs European Championships 1934 Prague Pairs 1931 St. Moritz Pairs 1930 Vienna Pairs

László (Ladislaus) Szollás (13 November 1907 – 4 October 1980) was aHungarian world champion and Olympic medalistpair skater.

Szollás was Jewish.^[1][2][3][4] He attended the Ludovika Military Academy in theHorthy era.^{[citation needed]}.

With partnerEmília Rotter he won theWorld Figure Skating Championship four times in five years (1931, 1933, 1934, and 1935), and they were the 1932 Worldsilver medalists.^[5] They were also the 1934European Champions, and 1930 and 1931 silver medalists.^[5]

They representedHungary at the 1932 Winter Olympics andat the 1936 Winter Olympics, winning twobronze medals.^[5]

After retirement, Szollás attendedSemmelweis Medical School in Budapest and earned a medical degree at theRoyal Hungarian Pázmány Péter University.^[6] He joined the military in 1934 and became a military doctor in 1936. From 1945 until 1948, he was aprisoner of war, first by the Americans and then later the Soviets.^[7] 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.^{[citation needed]}.

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.^[7] He coached the pairMarianna andLászló 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.^[8]

He and his partner, Emília Rotter, were elected to theInternational Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.^[4]

(with Rotter)

• List of select Jewish figure skaters
• List of flag bearers for Hungary at the Olympics

• Pairs on Ice profile
• Jews in Sports bio
• "Skate Canada Results Book – Volume 1–1896–1973"(PDF).Skate Canada. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 22 November 2010.
• "World Figure Skating Championships Results: Pairs Medalists"(PDF).International Skating Union. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 10 July 2007.
• "European Figure Skating Championships Results: Pairs Medalists"(PDF).International Skating Union. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 12 April 2007.

• 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

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• Articles with unsourced statements from November 2009