Gymnast Agnes Keleti, the oldest Olympian, has died at the age of 104

She died in Budapest Agnes Keletithe world’s oldest Olympic champion. Admitted to hospital last week with pneumonia, the former gymnast would have turned 104 on January 9th and has been the protagonist of an extraordinary life. Born into a Hungarian Jewish family, despite the Nazi occupation she managed to escape the Holocaust and after the war she became one of the stars of world gymnastics, winning ten Olympic medals, including five gold, between Helsinki 1952 and Melbourne 1956, and three world championships. After the Games in Australia he did not return to Hungary where the Soviet Union had suffocated the revolution and obtained political asylum in the country before moving to Israel in 1957. Only ten years ago, he decided to return to his native Hungary.