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Halina Gordon Półtorak

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Country represented
  
Poland

Name
  
Halina Gordon-Poltorak

Former partner
  
Jacek Tascher Tadeusz Gora Wojciech Bankowski

Halina Gordon-Półtorak ( [xaˈlina ˈɡɔrdɔn puwˈtɔrak]) is a Polish former competitive ice dancer. She is the chair of the ice dancing technical committee at the International Skating Union.

Career

Competing in partnership with Wojciech Bankowski, Gordon-Półtorak placed 14th at the 1973 World Championships in Bratislava and at the 1975 World Championships in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She is the 1977 Polish national champion with Tadeusz Góra.

In 1977, Gordon-Półtorak formed a partnership with Jacek Tascher, who had just switched from single skating. They became two-time national silver medalists and placed 12th at the 1978 and 1979 European Championships.

Gordon-Półtorak served as the ice dancing referee at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She was elected chair-holder of the International Skating Union's technical committee for ice dancing, becoming the discipline's highest-ranking official. She was re-elected in June 2016.

References

Halina Gordon-Półtorak Wikipedia