Agnes Caletti, the world’s oldest Olympic gold medalist and Holocaust survivor, has died at the age of 103.
Five-time Olympic champion Hungarian gymnast quality. Won her first gold at the age of 31 at the Helsinki Games in 1952, before winning four more in Melbourne in 1956 to become the oldest female gymnast to win gold.
His 10 Olympic medals, including five golds, make Kielty the second most successful Hungarian athlete of all time.
Kielty was born in Budapest in 1921 and won his first Hungarian championship in 1940, but later that year he was banned from all sporting activities because of his Jewish origin.
According to the Hungarian Olympic Committee (HOC), Keletti escaped deportation to the Nazi death camps by hiding in a village south of Budapest with false documents. His father and several relatives died in the Auschwitz death camp.
A year after the Melbourne Games, Keleti settled in Israel, where she married and had two children while coaching gymnastics.
The HOC says Keleti died on Thursday at the Budapest Military Hospital, where she was being treated for heart failure and breathing problems. She will turn 104 on January 9.