Agnes Keleti, a Hungarian gymnast who survived the Holocaust ... Communist uprising shortly before the Olympics began. Ms. Keleti sought asylum in Australia, as did many Hungarian Olympians ...
Keleti remained in Australia and sought political asylum. She then immigrated to Israel the following year and worked as a trainer and coached the Israeli Olympic gymnastics team until the 1990s.
After World War II, Keleti resumed her training as a gymnast in 1946. She was prevented from competing at the London Olympics in 1948 ... after she sought asylum in Australia when she was stranded ...
Keleti won a total of 10 Olympic medals in gymnastics, with in four medals ... Finland and six medals in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia. Before competing in the Olympics, she ...