Ede Király

Ede Király
nation	Hungary
birthday	February 22, 1926
place of birth	Budapest,  Hungary
date of death	10th August 2009 (age 83)
Place of death	Ontario Province,  Canada
Career
discipline	Single run, pair run
Partner	Andrea Kékesy
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 3 × 1 × EM medals 3 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver St. Moritz 1948 Couples  World figure skating championships bronze Davos 1948 Men's silver Davos 1948 Couples silver Paris 1949 Men's gold Paris 1949 Couples silver London 1950 Men's  European figure skating championships gold Prague 1948 Couples silver Milan 1949 Men's gold Milan 1949 Couples gold Oslo 1950 Men's

Ede Király [ ˈɛdɛ ˈkiraːj ] (born February 22, 1926 in Budapest , † August 10, 2009 in Ontario , Canada ) was a Hungarian figure skater who started in single and pair skating .

successes

In singles, the seven-time Hungarian champion won the bronze medal in the men's competition at the 1948 World Championships and was runner-up behind Richard Button in 1949 and 1950 . At the European Championships in 1949 he won silver behind Edi Rada , in 1950 he was European Champion in Oslo . He finished the Olympic Games in St. Moritz in 1948 in fifth place.

In pair skating, he was Hungarian champion with Andrea Kékesy in 1944 and 1947 to 1949. In 1948 the ice skating couple became European champions in Prague . At the World Championships in Davos and the Olympic Games in St. Moritz , they won the silver medal behind the Belgians Micheline Lannoy and Pierre Baugniet . In 1949 Király and Kékesy defended their European championship title in Milan and became world champions in Paris .

After the 1950 World Cup , Király and Kékesy stayed in London to escape the communist regime in their homeland. Then Király went to Canada and worked as a figure skating coach, including for Donald Jackson .

Results

Single run

Competition / year	1941	1944	1946	1947	1948	1949	1950
winter Olympics					5.
World championships					3.	2.	2.
European championships					4th	2.	1.
Hungarian championships	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.	1.

Pair skating

(with Andrea Kékesy )

Competition / year	1944	1947	1948	1949
winter Olympics			2.
World championships			2.	1.
European championships			1.	1.
Hungarian championships	1.	1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Ede Király in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )