Olga Tass
| Olga Tass medal table |
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| Olympic games | ||
| silver | 1948 London | Team ranking |
| silver | 1952 Helsinki | Team ranking |
| bronze | 1952 Helsinki | Group gymnastics |
| gold | 1956 Melbourne | Group gymnastics |
| silver | 1956 Melbourne | Team ranking |
| bronze | 1956 Melbourne | Horse jump |
Olga Tass , later Olga Tass-Lemhényi (born March 28, 1929 in Pécs ; † July 10, 2020 ) was a Hungarian gymnast who won six Olympic medals.
Life
Olga Tass began gymnastics in Pécs in 1941, and from 1947 she competed for Testnevelési Főiskola Sportegyesület . In 1951 she moved to Honvéd Budapest , in 1957 she was with Spartacus Budapest and in 1959 she moved to Vasas Budapest .
Olga Tass took part in the Olympic Games for the first time in London in 1948 and won silver with the team from Czechoslovakia. Four years later, in Helsinki, gymnasts could win individual medals for the first time. After the Hungarians had won silver behind the Soviet ranks in the team competition, Ágnes Keleti and Margit Korondi won gold on individual devices. Olga Tass placed eleventh in the all-around competition and achieved seventh place on the floor and on the balance beam. In group gymnastics, the Swedes won ahead of the Soviet Union and the Hungarian team. For the first time since World War II, all leading nations took part in the 1954 World Cup in Rome. Olga Tass and the team took second place behind the Soviet squad, but the Hungarians won the group gymnastics.
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 individual evaluation, Olga Tass took fourth place, she took sixth place on the uneven bars and won bronze in the horse jump together with the Swede Ann-Sofi Colling-Pettersson . 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.
At the 1958 World Cup , Olga Tass took on as Olga Tass-Lemhényi after she had married the water polo player Dezső Lemhényi (1917-2003). After the resignation of Keleti and Korondi, the Hungarians were no longer among the best teams. Olga Tass competed again at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960. The team took seventh place; In the individual ranking, the 31-year-old gymnast in 40th place was only the fifth-best gymnast in her class.
Olga Tass-Lemhényi lived with her husband Dezső Lemhényi in different countries. For a long time both worked as coaches in France. Olga Tass died on July 10, 2020 at the age of 91.
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .
Web links
- Olga Tass in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Olga Tass at the Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság (Hungarian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elhunyt Tass Olga, olimpiai bajnok tornász. Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság, July 11, 2020, accessed on July 13, 2020 (Hungarian).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Tass, Olga |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tass-Lemhényi Olga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian gymnast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pécs |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 2020 |