Alice Kertész | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country represented | Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1935-11-17) November 17, 1935 (age 88) Budapest, Hungary | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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.[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]