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Place of Birth: Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
About Helena Rakoczy
- Helena Rakoczy (née Krzynówek), also Rákóczy or Rákóczi (23 December 1921 – 2 September 2014) was a world champion Polish gymnast.
- She was born in Kraków, Poland. A member of the 1952 and 1956 Polish women's gymnastics team, she managed only one Olympic medal, in Melbourne, a bronze in the Team Portable Apparatus Event, tying with the USSR team.
- Disappointing performances at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, particularly on the uneven bars, kept her well out of the higher-finishing individuals in the all-around (she was 43rd), failed to qualify her to any of the event finals competitions, and saw her team place 8th.
- Stronger performances at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics garnered her an 8th-place finish in the all-around, a 5th place on uneven bars, and saw her team to a much-improved 4th place all around with her compatriate, two-time Olympian (1956, 1960) Natalia Kot. Her real successes came at the World Gymnastics Championships in 1950 and 1954.
- At the former, she became the World Individual All-Around Champion, as well as becoming champion on 3 of the 4 individual apparatuses (Vault, Beam, and Floor), and at the latter, she took bronze in both the individual all-around and uneven bars.
- These accomplishments make her the most decorated Polish gymnast – male or female – ever. Rakoczy was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2004.
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