The oldest person to have won an Olympic gold medal in their lifetime has died at the age of 103.
Agnes Keleti, a Hungarian gymnast, claimed her first gold medal at the age of 31 during the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Four years later, at the Melbourne Olympics, she secured four more golds, becoming a five-time Olympic champion and the oldest female gymnast to win a gold medal.
Born in Budapest in 1921, Keleti began her gymnastics career with a national championship win in 1940. However, later that year, her athletic pursuits were halted when, as a Jew, she was barred from all sports activities. She evaded deportation to Nazi death camps by using forged documents and hiding in a village south of Budapest.
The celebrated athlete passed away on Thursday in a Budapest military hospital, where she had been receiving treatment for heart failure and respiratory complications. She would have turned 104 on January 9.
Source : Arirang TV, https://www.arirang.com/news/view?id=279572
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