Joyce Racek

Joyce May Racek (later Markley, later Budrunas, August 16, 1938 – August 4, 2001) was an American artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics with the best individual result of 42nd place in the floor exercise.[1]

Joyce Racek

Racek in 1956
Personal information
Born	August 16, 1938 West Point, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died	August 4, 2001 (aged 62) Littleton, Colorado, U.S.
Height	160 cm (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
Sport	Artistic gymnastics
Club	Lincoln Turners
Coached by	Erna Wachtel

Racek took up gymnastics aged four. The family moved to Chicago, IL in 1941. In 1956 she graduated from Lake View High School and then studied at a college in Michigan. She then moved to Florida with her first husband Bill Markley, but they later divorced. In the 1970s she lived for two years in Australia with her second husband Paul Budrunas. Then they moved to Littleton, Colorado, and divorced.[2]

Racek died of a lung cancer. She was survived by her sisters Gale Gerhardt Hollinger and Donna Cuesta, and three children from her first marriage.[2]