Judit Tóth (27 December 1906 – 9 January 1993) was a Hungarian

gymnast Gymnastics is a group of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, artistry and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, sh ...

who competed in the

1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the IX Olympiad (), was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from 28 July to 12 August 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The city of Amsterdam had previously bid for ...

and in the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

. At the first-ever women's competition at a world gymnastics championships, which at the time were a combination of both gymnastics events and

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competitio ...

events, Tóth was the highest overall scorer in the gymnastics-events-only segment of the competition, ahead of the first-ever and repeat World All-Around Champion

Vlasta Děkanová Vlasta Děkanová (5 September 1909 – 16 October 1974) was a Czechs, Czech Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast who represented Czechoslovakia. She was the first World Artistic Gymnastics Championships – Women's individual all-around, World A ...

who, due to her combined strengths in both the gymnastics events and athletics events, is recognized as being the general women's champion of those games.

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* 1906 births 1993 deaths Hungarian female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Hungary Gymnasts at the 1928 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics 20th-century Hungarian sportswomen {{Hungary-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub