Margit Korondi

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

Life

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

End of October 1956, the Hungarian national uprising took place. The Hungarian team at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne was always celebrated especially by exiled Hungarians, when it took in a direct duel with the crew of the Soviet Union. The Hungarian gymnasts to Ágnes Keleti, Olga Tass and Margit Korondi documents in the team standings with 1.3 points behind against the Soviet team. In the multi- combat rating Margit Korondi occupied twelfth place, seventh place on the balance beam was her best placing at the single devices. At the end of the competitions, the Hungarian team still won the group exercises before the Swedes and the teams from Poland and the Soviet Union.

After the Olympics Korondi not returned to Hungary but immigrated to the United States. She married the Hungarian boxer Mátyás Plachy and lived with him in Houston. The marriage was divorced but again very soon.