Agnes Keleti, the world's oldest living Olympic gold medalist and Holocaust survivor, has died at the age of 103.
Five-time Olympic champion Hungarian gymnast Keleti She won her first gold medal at the age of 31 at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, before winning four more medals in Melbourne in 1956 to become the oldest gymnast to win a gold medal.
Her ten Olympic medals, including five gold, make Keleti the second most successful Hungarian athlete of all time.
Keleti was born in Budapest in 1921 and won her first Hungarian championship in 1940, but later that year she was banned from all sporting activities due to her Jewish origin.
According to the Hungarian Olympic Committee, Keleti escaped deportation to Nazi death camps by hiding in a village south of Budapest with false papers. Her father and many of her relatives died in the Auschwitz death camp.
A year after the Melbourne Games, Keleti settled in Israel, where she married and had two children while training gymnastics.
Keleti died on Thursday at Budapest Military Hospital, where she was being treated for heart failure and breathing difficulties, the center said. She would have turned 104 on January 9.