Emília Rotter

Emília Rotter ( born September 8, 1906 in Budapest, † January 28, 2003 ibid ) was a Hungarian figure skater, which was launched in pair skating.

She stepped in pair skating together with László Szollás to. Together, they were six times in a row Hungarian champions in the years 1931-1936.

1930 and 1931 they were runners- up behind their compatriots Olga Orgonista and Sándor Szalay. In their third and last European championship is they were in 1934 in Prague European champions.

Had her first appearance at the World Championships Rotter and Szollás 1929 in the domestic Budapest. They occupied the fifth place there. In their next world championship is they were in Berlin in 1931 already world champion. They beat their compatriots Orgonista extremely scarce and Szalay, which they had recently still inferior in the European Championship. A year later, in 1932 in Montreal, Canada, Rotter and Szollás could not defend her title, she won the silver medal behind the French Andrée Brunet and Pierre Brunet. For this it was their last World Cup and thus the way was clear for the Hungarians. 1933 Stockholm and 1934 in Helsinki, they won the gold medal, both times just ahead of the Austrians Idi Papez and Karl Zwack. 1935 domestic Budapest they were then for the third time in a row and a total for the fourth and last time world champion and this unanimously against the Austrians Ilse Pausin and Erik Pausin.

Rotter and Szollás participated in two Olympic Games. Both in 1932 in Lake Placid as well as 1936 in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, they won the bronze medal.

Emília Rotter later worked in the management of the Technical University of Budapest. Rotter as well Szollás, although this was not a Jew, were included in the International Jewish Hall of Fame in 1995.

Results

Pair of running

( with László Szollás )

Winter Olympic Games 1931 World Figure Skating Championships 1932 World Figure Skating Championships 1933 World Figure Skating Championships 1934 World Figure Skating Championships 1935 World Figure Skating Championships 1930 European Figure Skating Championships 1931 European Figure Skating Championships 1934 European Figure Skating Championships 1929 World Figure Skating Championships Pierre Brunet (figure skater) List of Olympic medalists in figure skating Phyllis Johnson James H. Johnson Karl Mejstrik Ludwig Wrede Ernst Baier Micheline Lannoy Peter Kennedy (figure skater) Ria Baran Jennifer Nicks John Nicks Frances Dafoe Norris Bowden Sissy Schwarz Kurt Oppelt Barbara Wagner Maria Jelinek Otto Jelinek Oleg Protopopov Irina Rodnina Alexander Gennadiyevich Zaitsev Irina Vorobieva Tassilo Thierbach Barbara Underhill Isabelle Brasseur Lloyd Eisler Ingo Steuer David Pelletier Shen Xue Pang Qing Aliona Savchenko Robin Szolkowy Maxim Trankov Marianna Nagy (figure skater) Silvia Grandjean Michel Grandjean Oksana Kazakova Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov (figure skater)
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