VIDEO: Ágnes Keleti, the world’s oldest living Olympic champion, turns 102

On Monday, Ágnes Keleti celebrates her hundred and second birthday. The five-time Olympic and one-time world champion gymnast, 46-time Hungarian champion and national athlete of the nation, has been the oldest person in the world to win a gold medal at the five Olympic Games for three years.

According to the Hungarian Olympics Committee (MOB), The birthday girl was born Ágnes Klein on 9 January 1921 in Budapest. She was raised to love and appreciate sport by her father, who himself led an active life, hiking and rowing on the Danube, and Ágnes was involved in these activities from an early age. If fate would have it otherwise, we might know her today as a renowned cellist, since she played music until she was 18, even performing at the Academy of Music. In the end, she chose gymnastics and brought much glory to Hungary. Keleti is a five-time Olympic champion Hungarian gymnast; the most successful competitor in Hungarian gymnastics, winning the Hungarian championship 46 times, and a seven-time team champion.