Ágnes Keleti, a Hungarian gymnast who won 10 Olympic medals, including five golds, has died at the age of 103. Keleti, the oldest living Olympic medal winner, overcame the Holocaust to become one of the most successful Jewish Olympic athletes.
ÁGNES KELETI has total of 10 Olympic medals in gymnastics—five golds for Hungary at the 1952 Helsinki and 1956 Melbourne Games.
She won a total of 10 Olympic medals in gymnastics, including five golds, for Hungary at the 1952 Helsinki Games and the 1956 Melbourne Games. She overcame the loss of her father and several relatives in the Holocaust to become one of the most successful Jewish Olympic athletes. on the eve of her 100th birthday. “I live well. And I love life. It’s great that I’m still healthy.”
Her mother and sister survived the war with the help of famed Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, but her father and other relatives perished at Auschwitz, among the more than half a million Hungarian Jews killed in Nazi death camps and by Hungarian Nazi collaborators.
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