Agnes Keleti, the world's oldest Olympic champion and a Holocaust survivor, passed away at the age of 103 at a Budapest hospital. She was hospitalized with pneumonia last week. Keleti's life story, marked by both tragedy and triumph, saw her overcome immense adversity to become Hungary's most successful gymnast, winning ten Olympic medals, including five golds, after the age of 30.
AGNES KELETI, THE world’s oldest Olympic champion and Holocaust survivor, has died at the age of 103.
As Hungary’s most successful gymnast, she won ten Olympic medals, all of them after reaching the age of 30 against much younger competitors, including five gold medals in Helsinki and Melbourne . Born on 9 January 1921 in Budapest as Agnes Klein, she later changed her surname to the more Hungarian-sounding Keleti.
While hiding in the countryside, she was working as a maid, but kept training in secret on the banks of the river Danube, when she got some free time. The following year she settled in Israel where she met and married a Hungarian sports teacher Robert Biro in 1959, with whom she had two children.
Holocaust Survivor Olympic Champion Gymnastics Agnes Keleti Hungary
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