Alice Kertész (also Alíz Kertész; born November 17, 1935) is a former Hungarian gymnast.[1][2][3]
| Alice Kertész | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | November 17, 1935 Budapest, Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gymnastics career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior international | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Budapest Honvéd | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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She is Jewish, and was born in Budapest, Hungary.[1][4][5] She helped Hungary win the silver medal in the team event in gymnastics at the 1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.[6]
She won a gold medal in team exercise with portable apparatus and a silver medal in team combined exercises at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne.[1] She placed 6th in the uneven bars.[6]
The Hungarian Gymnastic Federation awarded her and her fellow Olympic team members the Hungarian President's Medal in June 2011.[7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Paul Taylor (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: the clash between sport and politics: with a complete review of Jewish Olympic medalists. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781903900871. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
- ^ "Hungarian Olympic Athletes Not Returning to Their Homeland". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. December 7, 1956. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
- ^ "Hungarians Find New Life". The Leader-Post. December 18, 1956. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
- ^ Peter S. Horvitz (2007). The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes: An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and the 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars. SP Books. ISBN 9781561719075. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
- ^ Martin Harry Greenberg (1979). The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews. Schocken Books. ISBN 9780805237115. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
- ^ a b "Kertesz, Alice". Jewsinsports.org. December 8, 1956. Archived from the original on December 5, 2010. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
- ^ Dobor Dezso (June 20, 2011). "A unique gathering of Olympiads". En.olympic.cn. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
External links
edit- Alíz Kertész at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Alíz Kertész at Olympics.com