Portrait of Béla Károlyi

No. 55 · Coaching Legends

Béla Károlyi

Gymnastics

Nadia Comăneci and elite gymnastics

Béla Károlyi was a Romanian-American gymnastics coach who worked with Nadia Comăneci before building a coaching career in the United States. He helped shape elite women's gymnastics through centralised, intensive training systems. His legacy also includes sustained scrutiny of the demanding culture and treatment of athletes within those systems.

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