Oldest Olympic gold medallist Keleti dies at 103

Agnes Keleti, the world’s oldest living Olympic gold medallist and a Holocaust survivor, has died at the age of 103.

At the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Hungarian gymnast Keleti, a five-time gold medalist, won her first medal at the age of 31 before adding four more in Melbourne in 1956 to become the oldest female gymnast to do so.

Her 10 Olympic medals, including five golds, make Keleti the second most successful Hungarian athlete of all time.

Keleti won her first Hungarian championship in 1940 at the age of 21, but later that year she was expelled from all sports because of her Jewish heritage.

By hiding in a village south of Budapest with false papers, Keleti escaped deportation to Nazi death camps, according to the Hungarian Olympic Committee (HOC). In Auschwitz, her father and several relatives perished.

A year after the Melbourne Games, Keleti settled in Israel, where she married and had two children while coaching gymnastics.