Marta Karolyi

About Marta Karolyi

Gymnastics coach who honed the skills of several Olympic champions in the United States.

Márta Károlyi is a Romanian-American, Hungarian-born gymnastics trainer and former national team coordinator for American Gymnastics. She and her husband, Béla, are of Hungarian descent from Transylvania, Romania, and have athlete training in Romania, but defected to the United States in 1981. Béla and Márta Károlyi have coached nine Olympic champions, ten Fifteen world champions, sixteen people won many European medals in the United States. National champions, including Mary Lou Retton, Betty Okino, Kerri Strug, Teodora Ungureanu, Phoebe Mills, Nadia Comăneci, Kim Zmeskal and Dominique Moceanu.

Occupation	Gymnastics coach
Spouse(s)	Béla Károlyi
Born	Márta Erőss, August 29, 1942, Székelyudvarhely, Kingdom of Hungary (now Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania)
Known for	Romanian centralized gymnastics training system and coach to many world champions in Romania and U.S.
Children	Andrea Károlyi Wise
Parent(s)	Júlia Bálint, Ernő Erőss

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Trivia

The news about her Olympic successes spread quickly, which helped her Houstan-based gym gain popularity.

Marta Karolyi before fame

She and her husband fled Romania in the early 1980s and became citizens of the United States.

Achievement of Marta Karolyi

The story of her Olympic victories traveled swiftly, allowing her Houstan-based gym to grow in popularity.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Marta Karolyi family life

She married Bela Karolyi, another coach with whom she worked.

Associations of Marta Karolyi

Nadia Comaneci, the first Olympic gymnast to obtain a perfect ten, was one of her first students.

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