Her press official, Tamas Roth confirming a report from local sports told journalists that she passed away at Budapest Hospital. She was hospitalised with pneumonia last week.
Her son, Rafael Biro-Keleti told the local press at the time that they pray for her, she has great vitality adding they would like to celebrate her 104th birthday on January 9th together as a family.
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Keleti’s life story, including surviving the Holocaust and Olympic glory, reads like a gripping Hollywood film script, with her feisty spirit never breaking in the face of adversity.
As Hungary’s most successful gymnast, she won ten Olympic medals, all after reaching the age of 30 against much younger competitors, including five gold medals in Helsinki in 1952 and Melbourne in 1956.
Her motivation to do sports was not to chase glory, but to travel abroad, outside the Iron Curtain from the communist-ruled Hungary.
she told newsmen in 2016 that she was competing not because she liked it but because she wanted to see the world.