Ágnes Keleti

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Olympic medal record
Competitor for Flag of Hungary Hungary
Women's gymnastics
Gold 1952 Helsinki Floor exercise
Gold 1956 Melbourne Uneven bars
Gold 1956 Melbourne Balance beam
Gold 1956 Melbourne Floor exercise
Gold 1956 Melbourne Team, portable apparatus
Silver 1952 Helsinki Team competition
Silver 1956 Melbourne All-around
Silver 1956 Melbourne Team competition
Bronze 1952 Helsinki Uneven bars
Bronze 1952 Helsinki Team, portable apparatus
World Championships
Gold 1954 Rome Uneven bars
Silver 1954 Rome Team
Bronze 1954 Rome Balance beam

Ágnes Keleti (born 1921 in Budapest, Hungary) was an artistic gymnast.

She is Jewish and began gymnastics at age 4, and at 16 she won the first of her 10 Hungarian National titles.

War canceled the 1940 Summer Olympics, and postponed gymnastics training for her. She survived the Holocaust by posing as a Christian maid in a village in the Hungarian countryside. Her father died in Auschwitz; her mother and sister went into hiding, saved by Raoul Wallenberg.

After the war, Keleti qualified for three Games – 1948, when an injury caused her to miss the competition; 1952, when she was already 31 years old; and 1956.

During the 16th Olympic Games in Melbourne (November/December 1956), the Soviet Union invaded Hungary, and she had decided to stay permanently in Australia. She received political asylum there, along with 44 other Hungarian athletes - refugees after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

She later emigrated to Israel, getting her mother and sister out of Hungary. In Israel she became a physical education instructor.

In 2002 Keleti was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. [1]

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  1. ^  AGNES KELETI. International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Retrieved on May 12, 2007.

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