Alice Kertész
Appearance
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Born | Budapest, Hungary | November 17, 1935||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior international | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Budapest Honvéd | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Alice Kertész (also Aliz Kertész; born November 17, 1935) is a former Hungarian gymnast.[1][2][3]
She is Jewish, and was born in Budapest, Hungary.[1][4][5] She helped Hungary win the silver medal in the team event in gymnastics at the 1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.[6]
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.[1] She placed 6th in the uneven bars.[6]
The Hungarian Gymnastic Federation awarded her and her fellow Olympic team members the Hungarian President's Medal in June 2011.[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Paul Taylor (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: the clash between sport and politics: with a complete review of Jewish Olympic medalists. 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. 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. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
- ^ a b "Kertesz, Alice". Jewsinsports.org. December 8, 1956. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
- ^ Dobor Dezso (June 20, 2011). "A unique gathering of Olympiads". En.olympic.cn. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
External links
Categories:
- 1935 births
- Living people
- Hungarian female artistic gymnasts
- Jewish gymnasts
- Olympic gymnasts of Hungary
- Olympic gold medalists for Hungary
- Olympic silver medalists for Hungary
- Gymnasts at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Hungarian Jews
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships