Keleti won four medals, one of which was gold, at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, and four gold and two silver medals at the 1956 games in Melbourne: she is the most decorated female Olympian in Hungarian history.
It has been suggested that the number of her wins could have been even more impressive, had she been able to compete in her prime. Regardless, she can at least claim the title of the world’s oldest surviving Olympic medalist.
At the age of 19, Keleti was set to be part of the Hungarian gymnastics team for the 1940 Olympics, but the event – which was due to be held in Tokyo – was cancelled due to World War II. In 1941, Keleti was expelled from her gymnastics club for being ‘non-Aryan’. Soon after, she managed to purchase a fake identity and began working as a maid in the Hungarian countryside.
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