Agnes Keletti died at the age of 103, the oldest living “gold” Olympic champion

Hungarian gymnast and five times Olympic champion Agnes Keletti, died at the age of 103 on Thursday, January 2, 2025, as announced by the Hungarian Olympic Committee, saying goodbye to a great athlete of the . Agnes Keletti was the oldest living gold medal holder since the Olympic Games, as she celebrated her first victory in 1952 in Helsinki, to follow four more. Olympic medals for the top gymnast. ADVERSE Born Agnes Klein in Budapest on 9 January 1921, Keletti joined the National Gymnastics Federation in 1938 and won her first Hungarian championship in 1940, only to prohibit her participation in all sports activities that year due to her Jewish origin. “Agnes Keletti is Hungary’s largest gymnast, but her life and career were inextricably linked to her country’s politics and religion,” says the International Olympic Committee on its website, for a legend of the Olympic Games, which was also a survivor of the oppression of Jews in the Second World War, The Hungarian Olympic Committee reported that Keletti avoided deportation to Nazi camps, where hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were murdered, hiding in a village south of Budapest with fake documents. Her father and several relatives died in Auschwitz’ death camp. CORVERSE Keletti reached the top of her career in 1956 in Melbourne, where she won four gold medals and became the oldest female gymnast to win gold, the Hungarian Olympic Committee said. A year later, he settled in Israel, where he married and had two children. Her 10 Olympic medals, including the five gold medals, rank Keletti in second place as Hungary’s most successful athlete of all time, according to the Hungarian Olympic Committee. He has also received multiple Hungarian state awards. Source of RES-SME