Balancing act at 95
Oldest Olympic champion passes away at the age of 103
Five-time Olympic champion Agnes Keleti has died at the age of 103. This was reported by the sports portal "nemzetisport.hu", citing the family of the deceased. The Hungarian gymnastics legend survived the Holocaust and was the oldest living Olympic champion.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen Keleti was born Agnes Klein in Budapest to a Jewish family and won one gold medal in gymnastics at the Olympic Games in Helsinki (1952) and four in Melbourne (1956).
The then 35-year-old stayed in Australia after the Games and later emigrated to Israel. There she became a pioneer of artistic gymnastics, recruited future Olympic gymnasts, taught and led the national team.
Balancing act at 95
Keleti returned to Budapest at the end of the 1990s and remained active into old age, as her balancing act at 95 in the picture above shows. "Sport must always be an integral part of life if you want to live long," she once said. Until her death, Keleti was the oldest living Olympic champion in the world.
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