Agnes Keleti, the world’s oldest residing Olympic gold medallist and a Holocaust survivor, has died on the age of 103.
5-time Olympic champion Hungarian gymnast Keleti received her first gold aged 31 on the 1952 Video games in Helsinki, earlier than profitable 4 extra in Melbourne in 1956 to develop into the oldest feminine gymnast to win gold.
Her 10 Olympic medals, together with 5 golds, make Keleti the second most profitable Hungarian athlete of all time.
Keleti was born in Budapest in 1921 and received her first Hungarian championship in 1940, however later that yr she was banned from all sports activities actions due to her Jewish origin.
In response to the Hungarian Olympic Committee (HOC), Keleti escaped deportation to Nazi dying camps by hiding in a village south of Budapest with false papers. Her father and several other kin died within the Auschwitz dying camp.
A yr after the Melbourne Video games, Keleti settled in Israel, the place she married and had two youngsters whereas teaching gymnastics.
Keleti died on Thursday at Budapest Army Hospital, the place she was being handled for coronary heart failure and respiratory difficulties, says the HOC. She would have turned 104 on 9 January.
