Alice Kertész
Country represented Hungary
Born (1935-11-17) November 17, 1935
Budapest, Hungary
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
LevelSenior international
ClubBudapest Honvéd
Medal record
Women's artistic gymnastics
Representing  Hungary
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1956 MelbourneTeam, portable apparatus
Silver medal – second place1956 MelbourneTeam competition
World Championships
Silver medal – second place1954 RomeTeam

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]

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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. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781903900871. 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. SP Books. ISBN 9781561719075. 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. Schocken Books. ISBN 9780805237115. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
  6. 1 2 "Kertesz, Alice". Jewsinsports.org. December 8, 1956. Archived from the original on December 5, 2010. 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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