Olga Lemhényi-Tass

Olga Tass Tass later Olga Lemhényi ( born March 29, 1929 in Pécs ) is a former Hungarian gymnast who won six Olympic medals.

Life

Olga Tass began in 1941 in Pécs with the gymnastics, in 1947 she went to for Testnevelési Főiskola Sportegyesület. In 1951, she moved to Budapest Honved, 1957, she was at Spartacus Budapest and in 1959 she joined Vasas Budapest.

Olga Tass took in 1948 in London for the first time in the Olympic Games and won the team silver behind the team from Czechoslovakia. Four years later in Helsinki, there were gymnasts for the first time, individual medals to win. After the Hungarians had won in the team standings silver behind the Soviet team, Ágnes Keleti and Margit Korondi Gold gained in individual devices. Olga Tass placed in the all-around standings to the eleventh place, and reached to the floor and the balance beam seventh. In the group exercises the Swedes won against the Soviet Union and the Hungarian team. At the World Championships in Rome in 1954, participated for the first time since the Second World War part of all the leading nations. Olga Tass occupied with the team to second place behind the Soviet team, but the Hungarians were victorious in the group gymnastics.

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 individual standings, Olga Tass erturnte fourth place, they finished sixth on the uneven bars and won in the horse jump together with the Swede Ann -Sofi Pettersson Colling - bronze. At the end of the competitions, the Hungarian team won the group exercises before the Swedes and the teams from Poland and the Soviet Union.

Had; (ibid. † December 4, 2003 born December 9, 1917 in Budapest) married at the World Cup 1958 Olga Tass stood as Olga Tass Lemhényi after the meantime, the water polo player Dezso Lemhényi. Following the resignation of Keleti and Korondi the Hungarians, however, no longer were among the best teams. Olga Tass occurred in Rome in 1960 again at the Olympic Games. The team finished in seventh place in the individual competition was the 31 -year-old gymnast at number 40 only fifth-best gymnast of their squad.

Olga Tass Lemhényi lived with her ​​husband, the water polo Olympic champion Dezso Lemhényi, in different countries. For a long time they both worked as a trainer in France.