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Most Gold Medals Won at a Single Summer Olympics by a Jewish Woman

Record holder

Ágnes KeletiPerson

Record value

4 gold medals at Melbourne 1956

Country represented: HungaryAchievement location: Melbourne, AustraliaAchievement date: 1956Current record

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Ágnes Keleti, Jewish Hungarian-Israeli Olympic gymnast, portrait in 2021

Ágnes Keleti in 2021, at age 100.Tamás Róth / Wikimedia CommonsSourceCC BY-SA 4.0

Official record definition

The greatest verified number of official Olympic gold medals won by a female athlete satisfying the JWR Jewish Eligibility Standard at a single edition of the Summer Olympic Games.

Measurement methodology

total official Olympic gold medals won by one eligible female athlete at a single Summer Olympic Games, verified against Olympic and Jewish-sports sources

Measurement point: Melbourne 1956 Summer Olympic Games

Record story

Ágnes Keleti of Hungary established the record for the most gold medals won by a Jewish woman at a single Summer Olympics during the 1956 Games in Melbourne, Australia. Her achievement is recorded as "4 gold medals at Melbourne 1956". These four victories came in the artistic gymnastics events for balance beam, uneven bars, floor exercise, and the team portable apparatus. This performance remains the highest single-Games gold medal tally for a Jewish female athlete in the Summer Olympics.

At the Melbourne Games, Keleti also secured two silver medals in the individual all-around and the women’s team competition, bringing her total for that Olympics to six medals. Her four golds surpassed the two won by fellow Jewish Olympian Maria Gorokhovskaya at the Helsinki Games in 1952. Overall, Keleti's Olympic career yielded ten medals, including five gold. The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame calls her the most successful Jewish female athlete in Olympic history.

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How JWR verified this record

Verification date
1 September 2026
Verification standard
JWR Verification Standard 1.0

Achievement evidence

International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame documents that Ágnes Keleti won four gold and two silver medals at the Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games, including gold on balance beam, uneven bars, floor/free standing and team portable apparatus.

Superiority evidence

JWR's Jewish-women single-Games gold-medal counter-search found no eligible Jewish woman above four golds. Maria Gorokhovskaya won two golds among seven medals at Helsinki 1952, while other leading Jewish women Olympians reviewed remained below Keleti's four-gold single-Games total.

Jewish Eligibility — Verified by JWR

Jewish eligibility verification

Evidence establishing that the holder qualifies as Jewish for JWR purposes.

  • Agnes Keleti | International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame — International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
  • World's oldest living Olympic gold medallist Agnes Keleti dies at 103 — Reuters
  • 100 Years Ágnes Keleti: A Really True Olympian / The Queen of Gymnastics — Olympic Studies Centre / Olympic Review

Achievement / record verification

Evidence establishing that the holder achieved the result and holds the record as defined.

  • Olympic Review - Ágnes Keleti obituary/profile — International Olympic Committee / Olympic Review

Jewish eligibility, achievement and superiority evidence retain their separate classifications and are never merged. Context and provenance are not presented as proof of the achievement. Restricted evidence and internal research notes are never published. Learn more about the seven-stage process on the verification page.

Sources & Verification

History

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