Piroska Szekrényessy

Piroska Szekrényessy
nation	Hungary
birthday	May 1, 1916
place of birth	Budapest
date of death	October 30, 1990
Place of death	Budapest
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Attila Szekrényessy
Medal table
European figure skating championships bronze Berlin 1936 Couples bronze Prague 1937 Couples

Piroska Szekrényessy (born May 1, 1916 in Budapest ; † October 30, 1990 there ) was a Hungarian figure skater who started in pair skating .

Her figure skating partner was her brother Attila Szekrényessy . Together the siblings became Hungarian champions in the years 1937 to 1939 and 1941 to 1943.

In their first European Championship participation in 1936 in Berlin they won the bronze medal behind Maxi Herber and Ernst Baier as well as the British Violet and Leslie Cliff . They repeated this success at the subsequent European Championship in Prague , this time behind Herber / Baier and the Austrians Ilse and Erik Pausin . In their third and last European Championship , the Szekrényessys missed the podium in fourth.

The Hungarians were denied a medal in their four world championships. They finished fourth in 1935 , 1937 and 1939 and fifth in 1938. At their only Olympic Games in 1936 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, they finished fourth, just behind their famous compatriots Emília Rotter and László Szollás , who won bronze. The Second World War took the Szekrényessys the chance of further international participation.

Results

Pair skating

(with Attila Szekrényessy )

Competition / year	1935	1936	1937	1938	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943
winter Olympics		4th
World championships	4th		4th	5.	4th
European championships		3.	3.	4th
Hungarian championships			1.	1.	1.		1.	1.	1.

Web links

• Piroska Szekrényessy in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )