Hungarian-born gymnast, whose father perished in Auschwitz, nabbed 10 medals at 1952 and 1956 games before settling in Israel and coaching national team for decades
Agnes Keleti, a Holocaust survivor who coached Israel’s Olympic gymnastics teams for decades, has died. She was 103.
Keleti, who had been the oldest living Olympic medal winner, died Thursday morning in Budapest, the Hungarian state news agency reported. She was hospitalized in critical condition with pneumonia on December 25.
She won a total of 10 Olympic medals in gymnastics, including five golds, for Hungary at the 1952 Helsinki Games and the 1956 Melbourne Games. She overcame the loss of her father and several relatives in the Holocaust to become one of the most successful Jewish Olympic athletes.
Born Agnes Klein in 1921 in Budapest, her career was interrupted by World War II and the cancellation of the 1940 and 1944 Olympics.
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