Olga Orgonista

Olga Orgonista
nation	Hungary
birthday	February 22, 1901
place of birth	Budapest
date of death	November 20, 1978
Place of death	Budapest
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Sándor Szalay
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 1 × EM medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
World figure skating championships bronze Budapest 1929 Couples silver Berlin 1931 Couples  European figure skating championships gold Berlin 1930 Couples gold Vienna 1931 Couples

Olga Orgonista (born February 22, 1901 in Budapest ; † November 20, 1978 there ) was a Hungarian figure skater who started in pair skating .

She competed in pair skating with Sándor Szalay . Together they became the first Hungarian champions in pair skating between 1928 and 1930.

Orgonista and Szalay had their first appearance at world championships in 1929 in their native Budapest . There they won the bronze medal behind the two Austrian couples Lilly Scholz and Otto Kaiser and Melitta Brunner and Ludwig Wrede .

In 1930 in Vienna and 1931 in St. Moritz , Orgonista and Szalay also became the first European champions in pair skating . They relegated their compatriots Emília Rotter and László Szollás to second place both times .

The next time they participated in the World Cup, they were runner-up in Berlin in 1931 . They were very narrowly defeated by their compatriots Rotter and Szollás, whom they had defeated at the European Championships shortly before. A year later, Orgonista and Szalay contested their last world championship in Montréal, Canada . They finished them in fourth place. They achieved the same result in the same year at the Olympic Games in Lake Placid .

Results

Pair skating

(with Sándor Szalay )

Competition / year	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932
winter Olympics					4th
World championships		3.		2.	4th
European championships			1.	1.
Hungarian championships	1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Olga Orgonista in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )