András Sallay

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András Sallay figure skating
nation Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary
birthday December 15, 1953
place of birth Budapest
size 188 cm
Weight 75 kg
Career
discipline Ice dance
Partner Krisztina Regőczy
Trainer Betty Callaway
status resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
EM medals 0 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Lake Placid 1980 Ice dance
ISU World figure skating championships
bronze Ottawa 1978 Ice dance
silver Vienna 1979 Ice dance
gold Dortmund 1980 Ice dance
ISU European figure skating championships
silver Helsinki 1977 Ice dance
bronze Strasbourg 1978 Ice dance
bronze Zagreb 1979 Ice dance
silver Gothenburg 1980 Ice dance
 

András Sallay (born December 15, 1953 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian figure skater who started in ice dancing .

His ice dance partner was Krisztina Regőczy . The ice dance couple was trained by Betty Callaway . Regőczy and Sallay made their debut at European Championships in 1970 and made their debut at World Championships in 1973 . Both times they finished 13th. In 1976 they narrowly missed a medal at the World and European Championships as fourth . In Innsbruck they finished the first Olympic Games where ice dancing was part of the program in fifth place. At the European Championships in 1977 they won their first major international medal with silver behind Irina Moissejewa and Andrei Minenkow from the Soviet Union . A year later, the Hungarians won the bronze medal at both the European and World Championships . They repeated winning bronze at the 1979 European Championships . A little later they became vice world champions behind Natalja Linitschuk and Gennady Karponossow from the Soviet Union. 1980 marked the grand finale of her career. Regőczy and Sallay became Hungarian ice dance champions for the ninth time in a row. They finished the European Championships as vice-European champions behind Linichuk and Karponosov. At the Olympic Games in Lake Placid , the Hungarians only had to admit defeat Linitschuk and Karponossow and thus won Olympic silver. The greatest success followed with winning the world championship title in Dortmund . They defeated their two greatest competitors Moissejewa and Minenkow as well as Linichuk and Karponossow. It was the first and so far only world championship title for Hungary in ice dancing and the first world championship victory of a non-Soviet ice dancing couple since 1969 , when the British Diane Towler and Bernard Ford won. After that Regőczy and Sallay ended their amateur careers, switched to professionals and ran for a few years for the ice revue Ice Follies.

Results

Ice dance

(with Krisztina Regőczy )

Competition / year 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980
winter Olympics 5. 2.
World championships 13. 6th 6th 4th 4th 3. 2. 1.
European championships 13. 14th 11. 10. 7th 6th 4th 2. 3. 3. 2.
Hungarian championships 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1.

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