Alice Kertész | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1935-11-17) November 17, 1935 (age 89) Budapest, Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Gymnastics career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior international | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Budapest Honvéd | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alice Kertész (also Alíz Kertész; born November 17, 1935) is a former Hungarian gymnast.
She is Jewish, and was born in Budapest, Hungary. She helped Hungary win the silver medal in the team event in gymnastics at the 1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
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. She placed 6th in the uneven bars.
The Hungarian Gymnastic Federation awarded her and her fellow Olympic team members the Hungarian President's Medal in June 2011.
See also
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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
- Alíz Kertész at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Alíz Kertész at Olympics.com
- 1935 births
- Living people
- Hungarian female artistic gymnasts
- Olympic gymnasts for Hungary
- Olympic gold medalists for Hungary
- Olympic silver medalists for Hungary
- Gymnasts at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Jewish Hungarian sportspeople
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- Gymnasts from Budapest
- 20th-century Hungarian sportswomen