Source: The Guardian [UK]
“The Hungarian five-time Olympic champion gymnast Agnes Keleti, the world’s oldest living Olympic gold medallist and a survivor of the persecution of Jews in the second world war, has died at the age of 103, the Hungarian Olympic Committee (HOC) said. Born as Agnes Klein in Budapest on 9 January 1921, Keleti joined the National Gymnastics Association in 1938 and won her first Hungarian championship in 1940, only to be banned from all sports activities that year because of her Jewish heritage. … Keleti escaped deportation to Nazi death camps, where hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were killed, by hiding in a village south of Budapest with false papers. Her father and several relatives died in Auschwitz. She won her first Olympic gold at the Helsinki Games in 1952 aged 31. Keleti reached the peak of her career in Melbourne in 1956 where she won four gold medals and became the oldest female gymnast to win gold.” (01/02/25)