A Holocaust survivor and the oldest residing Olympic medal winner has died on the age of 103.
Considered one of the crucial profitable Jewish Olympic athletes, Ms Keleti received 10 medals in gymnastics, together with 5 golds, for Hungary on the 1952 Helsinki Video games and the 1956 Melbourne Video games.
When celebrating her a hundredth birthday, she mentioned: “These 100 years felt to me like 60. I live well. And I love life. It’s great that I’m still healthy.”
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Ms Keleti celebrating her a hundredth birthday. Pic: AP
Born Agnes Klein in 1921 in Budapest, her profession was interrupted by the Second World Conflict and the cancellation of the 1940 and 1944 Olympics.
Ms Keleti was pressured off her gymnastics workforce in 1941 as a consequence of her Jewish ancestry.
She later went into hiding within the Hungarian countryside, the place she survived the Holocaust by assuming a false identification and dealing as a maid.
Her mom and sister survived the conflict with the assistance of famed Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, however her father and different kinfolk died at Auschwitz focus camp.
Greater than half 1,000,000 Hungarian Jews have been murdered in Nazi demise camps and by Hungarian Nazi collaborators in the course of the conflict.
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Ms Keleti along with her 5 gold medals. Pic: AP
After the conflict, Ms Keleti was unable to compete within the 1948 London Olympics as a consequence of an ankle harm.
She ultimately made her Olympic debut on the 1952 Helsinki Video games on the age of 31, successful a gold medal within the flooring train in addition to a silver and two bronzes.
In 1956, she grew to become essentially the most profitable athlete on the Melbourne Olympics, successful 4 gold and two silver medals.
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Ms Keleti on the age of 99 along with her son, Rafael. Pic: AP
Whereas she was changing into the oldest gold medallist in gymnastics historical past at age 35 in Melbourne, the Soviet Union invaded Hungary following an unsuccessful anti-Soviet rebellion.
Ms Keleti remained in Australia and sought political asylum.
She then immigrated to Israel the next 12 months and went on to coach and coach the Israeli Olympic gymnastics workforce till the Nineteen Nineties.
