Bela Karolyi
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About
Gymnastics coach who guided many female athletes to Olympic gold medals, including Nadia Comaneci and Svetlana Boginskaya. The 2020 documentary Athlete A revolved around him.
Before Fame
He developed a gymnastics training program in which Nadia Comaneci was one of his first pupils.
Trivia
He and his wife, Marta Eross, both became gymnastics coaches. In 2000, he was inducted into the US Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
Family Life
He was born in Kolozsvar (now Cluj-Napoca), Romania, in 1942.
Associated With
He trained Mary Lou Retton, an Olympic gold medalist.
