Edit Perényi-Weckinger (5 May 1923 – 1 February 2019)Edit Perényi-Weckinger's obituary
was a Hungarian

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who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics. She was born in

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. At the London Olympics in 1948, she won silver in the team competition, after the Czechs and ahead of the Americans. In 1952, she participated in the

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Olympics, winning the silver medal in the team competition - after the Soviets and ahead of the Czechoslovakia - and the bronze in the team competition with equipment (a modality similar to the current rhythmic gymnastics), being located in the podium after the Swedes and the Soviets.

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1923 births 2019 deaths Hungarian female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Hungary Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Hungary Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Gymnasts from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian women 21st-century Hungarian women {{Hungary-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub