Career
Elek competed for Hungary in three Olympiads, winning three medals. She is considered to be one of the greatest female fencers in the history of the sport. Hungarian National Championships
World Championships
Olympics
Elek"s first Olympic competition was at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, at the age of 29.
In the process, Elek, who was Jewish, defeated a German with a Jewish father, Helene Mayer.
The bronze medal went to Ellen Preis, an Austrian Jew. The Games were cancelled in 1940 and 1944.