Alice Kertész

Alice Kertész
 Gymnast 
Country represented  Hungary
Born (1935-11-17) November 17, 1935
Budapest, Hungary
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics
Level Senior international
Club Budapest Honvéd

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 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.
  2. "Hungarian Olympic Athletes Not Returning to Their Homeland". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. December 7, 1956. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
  3. "Hungarians Find New Life". The Leader-Post. December 18, 1956. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 1 2 "Kertesz, Alice". Jewsinsports.org. December 8, 1956. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
  7. Dobor Dezso (June 20, 2011). "A unique gathering of Olympiads". En.olympic.cn. Retrieved October 17, 2011.

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