Andrea Bodó

Andrea Bodó (2012)

Andrea Bodó (born August 4, 1934 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian gymnast who won four medals at the Olympic Games.

Athletic career

Andrea Bodó took part in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki . The Hungarian squad won the silver medal in the team competition behind the gymnasts from the Soviet Union. In the individual evaluation, Bodó took 28th place. She reached 19th place on the floor and 16th place on the uneven bars . She missed a better placement in the individual ranking with 94th place on the balance beam . In the final group gymnastics with hand devices, the Swedish team won ahead of the Soviet Union and the Hungarians.

Four years later, Andrea Bodó also belonged to the Hungarian squad at the Olympic Games in Melbourne , which, like four years earlier, won the silver medal in the team competition. In the individual ranking she took 14th place. Her best placements on the equipment was 13th place in the jump and on the uneven bars, this time she reached 16th place on the balance beam. The group gymnastics competition was won by the Hungarians in the line-up of Andrea Bodó, Erzsébet Gulyás , Ágnes Keleti , Alíz Kertész , Margit Korondi and Olga Tass, ahead of the Swedish defending champions.

Like so many Hungarian athletes, Andrea Bodó did not return to Hungary, which was shaped by the suppression of the popular uprising , after the Olympic Games in Melbourne . She stayed in the United States and later worked as a sports psychologist and teacher in rhythmic gymnastics. As a judge in gymnastics, she took part in four Olympic Games.

Web links

• Andrea Bodó in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . Pp. 247 to 255
2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . Pp. 398 to 402