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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.

In 1957, Keleti immigrated to Israel.

In 2017, she was awarded the Israel Prize in sports.

Inducted into the Hungarian Sports Hall of Fame in 1991.

She was the oldest living Olympic champion and medallist, reaching her 100th birthday on 9 January 2021.

She began to train in gymnastics at the age of 4, and by 16 was the Hungarian National Champion in gymnastics. Over the course of her career, between 1937 and 1956, she won the Championships title ten times.

While representing Hungary at the Summer Olympics, she won 10 Olympic medals including five gold medals, three silver medals, and two bronze medals, and is considered to be one of the most successful Jewish Olympic athletes of all time.

Keleti holds more Olympic medals than any other individual with Israeli citizenship, and more Olympic medals than any other Jew, except Mark Spitz.

Inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1981.

Inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2002.

Inducted into the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame in 2001.