Gymnastics-Sydney Olympics rings champion Csollany dead at 51


FILE PHOTO: Hungarian Olympic Champion Szilveszter Csollany performs in the rings competition during the qualification of the 36th World Gymnastics Championships in Debrecen, Hungary on November 21, 2002. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh REUTERS LB/

(Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and gymnastics great Nadia Comaneci led the tributes to 2000 Sydney Olympics rings champion Szilveszter Csollany, who died on Monday aged 51.

Hungarian media said he had been hospitalised in December due to COVID-19 and had spent weeks on a ventilator.

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