Five-time Olympic champion Hungarian gymnast Agnes Keleti, the world's oldest living Olympic gold medallist and a survivor of the persecution of Jews in World War Two, died at the age of 103 on Thursday,

Ágnes Keleti, a Holocaust survivor and the oldest living Olympic medalist, has died at age 103 following a recent hospitalization. Keleti, who was hospitalized on Christmas Day in critical condition with pneumonia, died Thursday, Jan. 2, in Budapest, according to the Hungarian state news agency, the Associated Press reported.

Agnes Keleti, the world's oldest Olympic champion and Holocaust survivor, has died at the age of 103. She passed away on Thursday at Budapest hospital, her press official Tamas Roth told AFP, confirming a report from local sports daily Nemzeti Sport. She was hospitalised with pneumonia last week.