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Béla Károlyi ((ハンガリー語:Károlyi Béla); ; born September 13, 1942) is a Romanian gymnastics coach of Hungarian ethnicity. He was born in Kolozsvár, Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ceu.hu/news/2010-09-01/restoration—northern-transylvania-1940 )〕〔Cf. Northern Transylvania and Cluj-Napoca articles for precise history and further citations〕 Károlyi and his wife, Márta, also of Hungarian origin, immigrated to the United States in 1981, and both have dual citizenship in Romania and the United States. The Károlyis have coached both Romanian and United States Olympic teams to medal-winning success. Among the gymnasts Béla and Márta Károlyi have trained are Nadia Comăneci, Ecaterina Szabo, Mary Lou Retton, Betty Okino, Teodora Ungureanu, Kim Zmeskal, Kristie Phillips, Dominique Moceanu, and Kerri Strug, whom Béla famously carried to the podium after she injured her ankle on the gold-medal-winning vault in the team competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. In total, Károlyi has coached nine Olympic champions, fifteen world champions, sixteen European medalists and six U.S. national champions. ==Early coaching career== Béla Károlyi was originally a national junior boxing champion and a member of the Romanian hammer throwing team. He met his future wife because she was involved in gymnastics.〔Rendell, Matt, ("The Perfect Ten" ), ''The Observer'' (UK), Saturday 3 July 2004〕 After competing in the 1956 Olympics in the hammer throw, he enrolled at the Romania College of Physical Education, studying and practicing gymnastics after having had trouble with a mandatory skills test in the sport.〔 In his senior year at the college, he coached the women's gymnastics team, whose star was Márta (then named Márta Erőss). They married in 1963, then moved to a small town in the coal-mining region where Béla had grown up.〔 They started a gymnastics class in their elementary school. They were later invited to create a national school for gymnastics.〔 Romania's famed centralized training program has its roots in the 1950s; Károlyi helped develop the program further in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He worked as a coach at the boarding school in Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (now named Oneşti), training young girls specially chosen for their athletic potential. One of the first students at the school was six-year-old Nadia Comăneci, who lived near the town and commuted from home.〔Comaneci, Nadia. ''Letters to a Young Gymnast''. 2004, Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-01276-0〕 Károlyi debuted as an international coach in 1974. He had to persuade the Romanian gymnastics federation to have Comăneci and his other athletes named to the 1975 European Championships and the 1976 Olympic team, because the federation favored athletes from the competing Dinamo club in Bucharest.〔 At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he was head coach of the Romanian squad, and most of the members of the team were Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej athletes. The team took the silver medal, and Comăneci was one of the outstanding performers of the Games, scoring the first-ever perfect 10 in Olympic competition. Altogether, the Romanians won seven medals in Montreal: three gold, two silver, and two bronze. After Comăneci's astounding success in Montreal, Károlyi's importance as a coach was recognized. He was named head coach of the Romanian team at the 1980 Olympics. However, he came under fire from Romanian officials because of his score protests at several international meets, including the 1980 Olympics.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Béla Károlyi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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