‘Yar wasan motsa jiki mafi tsufa a duniya Agnes Keleti, wacce ta zama zakarar wasannin Olympics ta rasu tana da shekara 103 a duniya.
Ta rasu ne a ranar Alhamis a asibitin Budapest, kamar yadda sanarwa ta nuna, tabbatar, bayan rahoton jaridar wasanni ta cikin gida Nemzeti Sport. Keleti ta kwanta a asibiti ne saboda cutar pneumonia a makon da ya gabata.
Danta, Rafael Biro-Keleti, ya shaida wa manema labarai, “Muna addu’a gare ta,”
Tarihin rayuwar Keleti, wanda ya hada da tsira daga Holocaust da nasarorin Olympics, yana kama da labarin fim mai jan hankali. A duk rayuwarta, ruhinta mai karfi bai taɓa fadowa ba, ko da a cikin mawuyacin hali.
A matsayinta na yar tsere mafi nasara a Hungary, Keleti ta lashe zinare goma a gasar Olympics, ciki har da zinare biyar a wasannin Helsinki na 1952 da Melbourne na 1956, duka ta samu bayan ta cika shekaru 30, tana fafatawa da ‘yan wasa ƙasa da ita a shekaru. Manufarta ta shiga wasanni ba don neman suna ba, amma don tafiya zuwa kasashen waje, wajen Katanga ta ƙarƙashin mulkin ƙungiyar ƙasar Hungary. Ta shaida wa AFP a 2016 cewa, “Ban shiga gasar wasanni saboda ina son shi ba, na shiga ne saboda ina son ganin duniya.”
An haife ta a Budapest a ranar 9 ga Janairu 1921 da sunan Agnes Klein, sai daga baya ta canza sunanta zuwa Keleti domin ya fi kama da na yan hungary.
An zaɓe ta zuwa ƙungiyar ƙwallon motsa jiki ta ƙasa a shekara ta 1939, kuma ta lashe lambar yabo ta farko a Hungary a shekara ta 1940. Sai dai daga baya, an hana ta shiga kowanne irin gasa saboda asalinta na Yahudi.
Bayan mamayar Nazis na Jamus a Hungary a watan Maris na 1944, ta tsira daga mayar da ita sansanin mutuwa ta hanyar samun takardun karya, inda ta canza sunan ta zuwa na wata mata Kirista.