Krisztina Regőczy

Krisztina Regőczy [ kristinɒ rɛɡø ʦi ː ] ( born April 19, 1955 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian figure skater, which was launched in ice dancing.

Your Eistanzpartner was András Sallay. 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.

Regőczy is a member of the ISU Ice Dance Coaches Commission. From 1998 to 2000 she was president of the commission.

Results

Ice Dancing

( with András Sallay )

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