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		“We were out in Soviet Union to "change experience" at the time when the soviet figure skating was in one's infancy. When we were out there at the second time I noticed that the 82nd jump in a register of a russian coach is Czakó jump. Then on the Olimpic Games it turned out that this jump was invented in the west as well and was called Robertsson, somewhere else wolley (and it has another going in).”
		(György Czakó)

Czakó György György Czakó has been a three times Hungarian Figure Skating Champion back in the 1950's. He started skating at age 6 because of suggestion of a pediatrician. In the course of his career he several times took part on senior European and on a World Figure Skating Championships, attended on the Olimpic Games in Oslo in 1952, is winner of more international competition and won silver medal on the Universiade in Warsaw. He is noted for naming a jump - the Czakó jump - after him.

After he stoped competing he joined in the Ice-Revue in 1958. He performed on numerous shows as the soloist of the Hungarian Ice-Revue and performed in a film (Napfény a jégen). After the Ice-Revue ceased he worked as a mechanical engineer in a designing office. He spent his free time as a figure skating coach. He is still a coach in our days since 1972, now he is the president of the Budapest Skating Club. His daughter Krisztina Czakó has been his pupil as well who has been seven times Hungarian Champion and silver medalist in the 1990's.