Hungarian gymnast Agnes Keleti has passed away at the age of 103.
The Holocaust survivor and five-time Olympic champion, earned her first gold at the 1952 Games in Helsinki at the age of 31, followed by four more in Melbourne in 1956 to become the oldest female gymnast to win gold.
Keleti is the second most successful Hungarian athlete in history, with ten Olympic medals, five of which are gold. Keleti was born in Budapest in 1921 and won her first Hungarian championship in 1940, but she was barred from participating in any sports the following year due to her Jewish heritage.
According to the Hungarian Olympic Committee (HOC), Keleti survived deportation to Nazi extermination camps by hiding in a village south of Budapest with forged documents.
Her father and other relatives perished in the Auschwitz concentration camp. A year after the Melbourne Games, Keleti moved to Israel, where she married and had two children while coaching gymnastics.
According to the HOC, Keleti died on Thursday at Budapest Military Hospital while receiving treatment for heart failure and respiratory issues. She would have turned 104 on January 9.
