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   [Jewish News Sources]   
      
   Agnes Keleti, Holocaust Survivor Who Won 10 Olympic Medals, Dies At 103   
      
   Agnes Keleti, a Holocaust survivor and the oldest living Olympic medal   
   winner, has died. She was 103.   
      
   Keleti died Thursday morning in Budapest, the Hungarian state news agency   
   reported. She was hospitalized in critical condition with pneumonia on   
   Dec. 25.   
      
   She won a total of 10 Olympic medals in gymnastics, including five golds,   
   for Hungary at the 1952 Helsinki Games and the 1956 Melbourne Games. She   
   overcame the loss of her father and several relatives in the Holocaust to   
   become one of the most successful Jewish Olympic athletes.   
       .....   
   Born Agnes Klein in 1921 in Budapest, her career was interrupted by World   
   War II and the cancellation of the 1940 and 1944 Olympics. Forced off her   
   gymnastics team in 1941 because of her Jewish ancestry, Keleti went into   
   hiding in the Hungarian countryside, where she survived the Holocaust by   
   assuming a false identity and working as a maid.   
        .....   
   Four years later, she made her Olympic debut at the 1952 Helsinki Games at   
   the age of 31, winning a gold medal in the floor exercise as well as a   
   silver and two bronzes. In 1956, she became the most successful athlete at   
   the Melbourne Olympics, winning four gold and two silver medals.   
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