Sándor Szalay (figure skater)

Sándor Szalay
nation	Hungary
birthday	June 6, 1893
place of birth	Budapest
date of death	April 5, 1965
Place of death	Budapest
Career
discipline	Pair skating
Partner	Olga Orgonista
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

Sándor Szalay (born June 6, 1893 in Budapest ; † April 5, 1965 there ) was a Hungarian figure skater who started in pair skating .

He competed in pair skating with Olga Orgonista . Together they became the first Hungarian champions in pair skating between 1928 and 1930.

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

Szalay and Orgonista 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 . 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, Szalay and Orgonista competed in their last world championship in Montreal, 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 Olga Orgonista )

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

• Sándor Szalay in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )