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. 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. Later they were invited by the government to create a national school for gymnastics. They moved to a small town in the coal-mining region where Béla had grown up, where they started a gymnastics class in the elementary school. They later started a relationship and married in 1963. In his senior year at the college, Károlyi coached the women's gymnastics team, whose star was Márta Erőss. 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. Skilled as an athlete, he became a national junior boxing champion and a member of the Romanian hammer throwing team.
Károlyi was born in Kolozsvár, Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania). Béla and Márta Károlyi as a coaching team were inducted into the US Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2000. Béla Károlyi was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1997. In total, Károlyi has coached nine Olympic champions, fifteen world champions, sixteen European medalists, and six U.S. Károlyi has coached many notable national, European, World and Olympic gymnasts, including Nadia Comăneci, Ecaterina Szabo, Mary Lou Retton, Betty Okino, Teodora Ungureanu, Kim Zmeskal, Kristie Phillips, Dominique Moceanu, Phoebe Mills, and Kerri Strug. The Karolyis and their ranch are central figures in 2020 film, Athlete A - a documentary about the scandal. They have said they had no clue that Larry Nassar, the national gymnastics team doctor who was convicted of sexual assault of minors, was assaulting young female gymnasts in their care at their Karolyi Ranch training facility in Texas. They have also been severely criticized for their coaching style, which many gymnasts have called abusive. They have both been head coach of the United States women's national gymnastics team, as well as national team coordinator for United States gymnastics at the Olympic Games. Since their arrival in the United States, Béla and his wife Márta Károlyi have been credited with transforming the coaching of gymnastics in the US and bringing major international success. He and his wife defected to the United States in 1981. Living under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, Károlyi frequently clashed with Romanian officials. One of his earliest protégés was Nadia Comăneci, the first Olympic Games gymnast to be awarded a perfect score. Early in his coaching career he developed the Romanian centralised training system for gymnastics.
Béla Károlyi ( Hungarian: born September 13, 1942) is an ethnic Hungarian Romanian-American gymnastics coach.
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