
Agnes Keleti with photo credit to Adam Justin, of Maccabi Hungary.
Mazal tov to Agnes Keleti the great Hungarian Olympic Gymnastics champion on celebrating her 102nd birthday.
Gymnast Agnes Keleti won 10 Olympic medals over three Olympiads, including 5 gold medals. She ranks third all-time among women athletes for most Olympic medals and fourth all-time as a winner of Olympic gold medals.
A budding champion on the eve of World War II, Keleti’s Olympic hopes were scotched when the 1940, then 1944 Games were cancelled. Nazi Germany invaded Hungary in 1944 and Keleti’s father and other relatives were sent to Auschwitz where they perished.
The gymnast and her mother went into hiding and escaped a similar fate with the aide of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who provided documents permitting them to flee Hungary.