He trained multiple Olympic gold medalists and world champions in the U.S. and Romania, including Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton.
Bela Karolyi, the former USA Gymnastics coach who led multiple Olympic gold medalists to victory in Romania and the US, including Mary Lou Retton in 1984, died on Friday, November 15, 2024.
Bela Karolyi, the legendary gymnastics coach who elevated the United States to international prominence in the sport, has died. Karolyi passed away on Friday, USA Gymnastics announced per the AP. No ...
Karolyi was born in what is now Romania in 1942, and rose quickly through the Romanian dictatorship's coaching ranks. In 1976, he coached Nadia Comaneci to three gold medals at the Summer Olympics in ...
Bela Karolyi, the larger-than-life coach who led Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton to Olympic gold while revolutionizing the ...
Bela Karolyi has died at age 82. The Romanian-born gymnastics coach, along with his wife Martha Karolyi, garnered ...
Bela Karolyi, the legendary and controversial Romanian American gymnastics coach who helped lead Mary Lou Retton, Nadia ...