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Márta Károlyi ( Hungarian: [ˈmaːrtɒ ˈkaːroji]; née Erőss; born August 29, 1942) is a Hungarian-American gymnastics coach and the former national team coordinator for USA Gymnastics. She and her husband, Béla, are ethnic Hungarians from Transylvania, Romania, who trained athletes in Romania before defecting to the United States in 1981.
Aug 16, 2016 · Marta Karolyi is just days from retirement – two weeks from her 74th birthday – but the U.S. women’s gymnastics program doesn’t need any absence to make the heart grow fonder than it already...
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Oct 4, 2016 · Martha and Béla Kérolyi have coached top American gymnasts since defecting to the country in 1981. From the confines of their ranch in Huntsville, Texas, the husband and wife team eventually...
- Lindsay Kimble
In his senior year at the college, Károlyi coached the women's gymnastics team, whose star was Márta Erőss. They later started a relationship and married in 1963. They moved to a small town in the coal-mining region where Béla had grown up, where they started a gymnastics class in the elementary school.
Aug 16, 2016 · Marta and Bela met as college students in Romania and were married shortly after graduation in 1963. She was a former gymnast. He was a boxer and hammer thrower. And all it took was one protege to set their coaching careers else in motion. That young, talented girl was Nadia Comaneci.
Aug 8, 2016 · In her place, Bela and Martha Karolyi will leave a system that has changed gymnastics in America. “After 56 years, I believe it’s enough,” says Bela Karolyi.
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Aug 16, 2016 · Marta Karolyi is just days from retirement – two weeks from her 74th birthday – but the U.S. women’s gymnastics program doesn’t need any absence to make the heart grow fonder than it already is.
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