Biography

5 times Olympic Champion gymnast.

After she retired from competition, she worked as a physical education teacher, and coached the Israeli national team.

As Hungary's most successful gymnast, she won ten Olympic medals, all of them after reaching the age of 30 against much younger competitors, including five gold medals in Helsinki (1952) and Melbourne (1956).

After the Nazi German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, she escaped deportation to a death camp by obtaining false documents in exchange for all her belongings, assuming the identity of a young Christian woman.

She was the most successful athlete at the 1956 Summer Olympics.