Alice Kertész

Alice Kertész
Country represented  Hungary
Born November 17, 1935 (1935-11-17) (age 76)
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. ^ 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. http://books.google.com/books?id=tGcPDXOjxMoC&pg=PA234&dq=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+kertesz&hl=en&ei=N5KcTr6eDsj50gG9wrWFCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
  2. ^ "Hungarian Olympic Athletes Not Returning to Their Homeland". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. December 7, 1956. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=46lkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FW8NAAAAIBAJ&pg=2940,839906&dq=alice+kertesz&hl=en. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
  3. ^ "Hungarians Find New Life". The Leader-Post. December 18, 1956. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jjtUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aDoNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4303,2766566&dq=alice+kertesz&hl=en. 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. http://books.google.com/books?id=Xcfef_d2es4C&pg=PA189&dq=Alice+Kertesz&hl=en&ei=fJScTsNO5vTSAeOoleME&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA. 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. http://books.google.com/books?id=1K4UAQAAIAAJ&q=Alice+Kertesz&dq=Alice+Kertesz&hl=en&ei=fJScTsNO5vTSAeOoleME&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBQ. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
  6. ^ a b "Kertesz, Alice". Jewsinsports.org. December 8, 1956. http://www.jewsinsports.org/Olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=236. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 
  7. ^ Dobor Dezso (June 20, 2011). "A unique gathering of Olympiads". En.olympic.cn. http://en.olympic.cn/news/olympic_news/2011-06-20/2147633.html. Retrieved October 17, 2011. 

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