Margit Korondi

Margit Korondi medal table
Apparatus gymnastics
Hungary
Olympic games
gold	1952 Helsinki	Uneven bars
silver	1952 Helsinki	Team ranking
bronze	1952 Helsinki	All-around
bronze	1952 Helsinki	Balance beam
bronze	1952 Helsinki	Floor exercise
bronze	1952 Helsinki	Group gymnastics
gold	1956 Melbourne	Group gymnastics
silver	1956 Melbourne	Team ranking

Margit Korondi (born June 24, 1932 in Celje , Yugoslavia , after marriage to Plachy ) is a former Hungarian gymnast who won two Olympic gold medals.

Life

Margit Korondi won the 1951 floor exercise at the Hungarian championships. At the age of 20 she took part in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki . In the team classification, the Hungarians took second place behind the team from the Soviet Union. Margit Korondi won bronze in the all-around competition as the best of her team. On the individual devices she won gold on the uneven bars and received bronze on the floor and on the balance beam. In the horse jump she was 22nd and thus missed a better place in the all-around competition. In the group gymnastics Korondi won bronze with the Hungarian team behind the Swedes and the Soviet team.

The Hungarian uprising took place at the end of October 1956 . The Hungarian team at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne was especially celebrated by exiled Hungarians when it competed in a direct duel with the team from the Soviet Union. The Hungarian gymnasts around Ágnes Keleti , Olga Tass and Margit Korondi were defeated in the team classification with 1.3 points behind the Soviet team. In the all-around competition, Margit Korondi took twelfth place, and seventh place on the balance beam was her best placement on the individual devices. At the end of the competition, the Hungarian team won the group gymnastics ahead of the Swedes and the teams from Poland and the Soviet Union.

After the Olympics, Korondi did not return to Hungary, but emigrated to the United States. She married the Hungarian boxer Mátyás Plachy and lived with him in Houston. The marriage was soon divorced.

literature

• Erich Kamper , Bill Mallon : Who's Who of the Olympic Games 1896–1992. Who's Who at the Olympics. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-928562-47-9 .
• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .