# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marta-karolyi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:59:40.979Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marta-karolyi"
name: "Márta Károlyi"
slug: "marta-karolyi"
description: "Márta Károlyi is a Romanian-American gymnastics coach and the former national team coordinator for USA Gymnastics. She and her late husband, Béla, are ethnic Hungarians from Transylvania, Romania, who trained athletes in Romania, including Nadia Comăneci, before defecting to the United States in 1981. Béla and Márta Károlyi have trained nine Olympic champions, fifteen world champions, sixteen European medalists and many U.S. national champions, including Comăneci, Mary Lou Retton, Betty Okino, Kerri Strug, Teodora Ungureanu, Phoebe Mills, Kim Zmeskal, and Dominique Moceanu."
tagline: "Romanian-American gymnastics coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SecretUSClassic_Simone_Biles.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
birthDate: "1942-08-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.46
  momentum:             7.321304131408662
  historical:           7.421328
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3073858/"
    handle:    "nm3073858"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rta_K%C3%A1rolyi"
    title: "Márta Károlyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rta_K%C3%A1rolyi"
    title: "Márta Károlyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rta_K%C3%A1rolyi"
    title: "Márta Károlyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_K%C3%A1rolyi"
    title: "Marta Károlyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rta_K%C3%A1rolyi"
    title: "Márta Károlyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rta_K%C3%A1rolyi"
    title: "Márta Károlyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EB%A5%B4%ED%83%80_%EC%B9%B4%EB%A1%A4%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "마르타 카롤리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta_K%C3%A1rolyi"
    title: "Marta Károlyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8273156"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump