András Sallay

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

His Eistanzpartnerin was Krisztina Regőczy. The ice dance was trained by Betty Callaway. Her debut at the European Championships had Regőczy and Sallay in 1970, their debut at the World Championships in 1973. Both times they occupied the 13th place. In 1976, she missed a medal in fourth place at the World and European Championships just barely. In Innsbruck, they finished the first Olympic games where ice dancing was in the program, in fifth place. At the European Championships in 1977, they won silver behind Moiseyeva Irina and Andrei Minenkov from the Soviet Union its first major international medal. A year later won the Hungarians both at the European Championships as well as at the World Championships bronze medal. The profit of bronze they repeated at the European Championships in 1979. Shortly later they were. Vice World Champion behind Natalia and Gennadi Linitschuk Karponossow from the Soviet Union The year 1980 marked the culmination of her career. Regőczy and Sallay became the ninth consecutive Hungarian Eistanzmeister. The European Championship as they finished runners- up behind Linitschuk and Karponossow. The Hungarians only Linitschuk Karponossow and were defeated at the Olympic Games in Lake Placid and thus won Olympic silver. The greatest success was followed by winning the world title in Dortmund. They defeated their two biggest competitors Moiseyeva and Minenkov and Linitschuk and Karponossow. It was the first and only World Cup title for Hungary in ice dancing and the first World Cup victory of a non-Soviet Eistanzpaares since 1969, when the British Diane Towler and Bernard Ford won. Then Regőczy and Sallay finished their amateur career, switched to the pros and ran a few years for the Ice Revue Ice Follies.

Results

Ice Dancing

( with Krisztina Regőczy )

Winter Olympic Games 1978 World Figure Skating Championships 1979 World Figure Skating Championships 1980 World Figure Skating Championships 1977 European Figure Skating Championships 1978 European Figure Skating Championships 1979 European Figure Skating Championships 1980 European Figure Skating Championships 1970 European Figure Skating Championships 1973 World Figure Skating Championships 1976 World Figure Skating Championships 1976 European Figure Skating Championships 1969 World Figure Skating Championships List of Olympic medalists in figure skating 1974 World Figure Skating Championships 1975 World Figure Skating Championships 1977 World Figure Skating Championships 1971 European Figure Skating Championships 1972 European Figure Skating Championships 1973 European Figure Skating Championships 1974 European Figure Skating Championships 1975 European Figure Skating Championships Jean Westwood (figure skater) Pamela Weight June Markham Courtney Jones Doreen Denny Pavel Roman Aleksandr Gorshkov (figure skater) Jayne Torvill Christopher Dean Andrei Bukin Isabelle Duchesnay Paul Duchesnay Alexander Zhulin Gwendal Peizerat Shae-Lynn Bourne Victor Kraatz Isabelle Delobel Olivier Schoenfelder Oksana Domnina Maxim Shabalin Tessa Virtue Scott Moir Meryl Davis Charlie White (figure skater) Anna Cappellini Luca Lanotte
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