The Hungarian five-time Olympic champion gymnast Agnes Keleti, the world’s oldest dwelling Olympic gold medallist and a survivor of the persecution of Jews within the second world struggle, has died on the age of 103, the Hungarian Olympic Committee (HOC) stated.
Born as Agnes Klein in Budapest on 9 January 1921, Keleti joined the Nationwide Gymnastics Affiliation in 1938 and received her first Hungarian championship in 1940, solely to be banned from all sports activities actions that 12 months due to her Jewish heritage.
“Agnes Keleti is the best gymnast produced by Hungary, however one whose life and profession have been intertwined with the politics of her nation and her faith,” the Worldwide Olympic Committee stated in a profile on its web site on Thursday.
The HOC stated Keleti escaped deportation to Nazi demise camps, the place lots of of 1000’s of Hungarian Jews have been killed, by hiding in a village south of Budapest with false papers. Her father and a number of other kin died in Auschwitz.
She received her first Olympic gold on the Helsinki Video games in 1952 aged 31. Keleti reached the height of her profession in Melbourne in 1956 the place she received 4 gold medals and have become the oldest feminine gymnast to win gold. A 12 months later, Keleti settled in Israel, the place she married and had two youngsters.
Her 10 Olympic medals, together with 5 golds, made Keleti the second most profitable Hungarian Olympian of all time, the HOC stated. She obtained a number of Hungarian state awards.
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