Five-time Olympic champion Hungarian gymnast Agnes Keleti, the world’s oldest living Olympic gold medalist and a survivor of the persecution of Jews in World War II, died at the age of 103 on Thursday, the Hungarian Olympic Committee said. Oded Balilty / AP fileThe HOC said Keleti escaped deportation to Nazi death camps, where hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were killed, by hiding in a village south of Budapest with false papers. She won her first gold at the Helsinki games in 1952 aged 31, when most gymnasts had long been retired, the HOC said. Keleti reached the peak of her career in Melbourne in 1956, where she won four gold medals and became the oldest female gymnast to win gold, the HOC said. Her 10 Olympic medals, including five golds, rank Keleti as the second most successful Hungarian athlete of all time, the HOC said.

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Persons: Agnes Keleti, Agnes Klein, Keleti, Oded Organizations: Hungarian Olympic Committee, National Gymnastics Association, International Olympic, Helsinki Locations: Budapest, Hungary, Herzliya, Israel, Nazi, Melbourne, Hungarian