Andrea Bodó, married Andrea Molnár-Bodó, Andrea Schmid-Bodó, and Andrea Schmid-Shapiro (4 August 1934 – 21 September 2022) was a Hungarian

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who competed in the

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and in the

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. After 1956, the year of the Hungarian revolution suppressed by the army of the

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, she moved to the

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. She studied at the

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. She became a

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coach, judge and administrator, serving as a member of the

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RG technical committee for 17 years between 1984 and 2001. She also taught at the

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. Molnár-Bodó was first married to Miklos Molnar, sports journalist and fellow emigrant from Hungary, they had a daughter named Aniko. After splitting she married twice again, last time with physics professor Charles Shapiro. Molnár-Bodó was also author of several books on gymnastics, like ''Introduction to Women's Gymnastics'' (1973, with Blanche Jessen Drury) and ''Modern rhythmic gymnastics'' (1976).

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1934 births 2022 deaths Hungarian female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Hungary Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Hungary Olympic silver medalists for Hungary Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics 20th-century Hungarian sportswomen 21st-century Hungarian women Gymnasts from Budapest {{Hungary-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub

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