Level Senior international Country represented Hungary Club Budapest Honved FC | Role Olympic athlete Name Alice Kertesz | |
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Born November 17, 1935 (age 88)
Budapest, Hungary ( 1935-11-17 ) Discipline Women\'s artistic gymnastics Olympic medals Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Women\'s team portable apparatus Similar People Olga Lemhenyi‑Tass, Margit Korondi, Agnes Keleti, Polina Astakhova, Larisa Latynina | ||
Alice Kertész (also Aliz 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.
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