Ágnes Keleti
Hungarian-Israeli artistic gymnast (1921–2025)
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She survived the Holocaust in hiding, then became the oldest living Olympic champion on earth — and at the 1956 Melbourne Games, a thirty-five-year-old Hungarian gymnast who should have been long retired walked away with more medals than anyone else at the meet.
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Born Ágnes Klein in Budapest on 9 January 1921, she trained as a gymnast until the war tore her life open; she survived in hiding while her father perished. When she finally reached the Olympics, she was already in her thirties — ancient by gymnastics standards — yet between 1952 and 1956 she collected ten Olympic medals for Hungary, five of them gold. At the 1956 Melbourne Games she was the meet's most decorated athlete. The following year, as Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest, Keleti made a different choice: she immigrated to Israel, became a coach, and built a second life. She returned to H…
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- Israel Prize
- Prima Primissima Prize
- Athlete of the Nation
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