List of Olympic female gymnasts for Hungary
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since 1896. Hungarian female gymnasts have participated in every Summer Olympics since 1928, except for 1932 and 1984. A total of 50 female gymnasts have represented Hungary. Hungarian women have won 23 medals at the Olympics – 5 in team all-around, 2 in team portable apparatus, 2 in individual all-around, 2 in balance beam, 5 in floor exercise, 5 in uneven bars, and 2 in vault. The medals include 7 golds."Hungary Gymnastics"
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Five Hungarian female gymnasts have won at least four medals at the Olympic Games:
Ágnes Keleti Ágnes Keleti (''né'' Klein; 9 January 1921) is a Hungarian-Israeli retired Olympic and world champion artistic gymnast and coach. She is the oldest living Olympic champion and medalist, reaching her 100th birthday January 9, 2021. While repres ...
(10), Margit Korondi (8), Olga Lemhényi-Tass (6), Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles (5), and Andrea Molnár-Bodó (4). Ágnes Keleti competed at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won 10 total medals, more than any other Hungarian female gymnast. She won four medals in 1952, including the floor exercise gold, and then followed that up by winning six medals in 1956, including golds on balance beam, floor exercise, and uneven bars. Margit Korondi also competed at the 1952 and 1956 Games. She won six medals in 1952 and two in 1956. From 1948 to 1960, Olga Lemhényi-Tass competed at four Olympic Games, the most of any Hungarian female gymnast. She won six total medals. Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles participated in three Olympics from 1948 to 1956 and won five total medals. Andrea Molnár-Bodó won four total medals at the 1952 and 1956 Games. After 1956, no Hungarian female gymnast won a gold medal until 1992. That year,
Henrietta Ónodi Henrietta Ónodi (born May 22, 1974) is a Hungarian artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal in 1992. After retiring from gymnastics in 1997 she moved to the United States, married American O ...
earned two medals, including the gold in vault."Henrietta Onodi"
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Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
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