Agnes Simon Explained

Agnes Simon
Fullname:Ágnes Simon-Almási
Birth Date:21 June 1935
Birth Place:Budapest
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Agnes Simon (née Almási; 21 June 1935 – 19 August 2020[1]) was an international table tennis player from Hungary.

Personal life

After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, she fled to Sweden to seek political asylum, together with her husband and coach Béla Simon.[2] [3] They were accepted in the Netherlands and then in West Germany; thus Simon competed for the Netherlands in 1959–1960 and for West Germany since 1962.

Table tennis career

From 1953 to 1976, she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.[4]

Her three World Championship medals[5] [6] included a gold medal in the doubles at the 1957 World Table Tennis Championships with Lívia Mossóczy.[7] [8]

She also won three English Open titles.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Simone Hinz . Ehemalige Doppel-Weltmeisterin Agnes Simon ist verstorben . Deutscher Tischtennisbund (DTTB) . 2020-08-19 . 2020-08-22 . 2021-07-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210711190842/https://www.tischtennis.de/news/ex-weltmeisterin-agnes-simon-ist-verstorben.html . dead .
  2. News: Hungarian Table Tennis Star Again Seeks Asylum From Reds. 1 June 2011. The Hartford Courant. 21 March 1957. 6 November 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121106224646/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/899850932.html?dids=899850932:899850932&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+21,+1957&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=Hungarian+Table+Tennis+Star+Again+Seeks+Asylum+From+Reds&pqatl=google. dead.
  3. News: ATHLETE ASKS ASYLUM; Hungarian Table Tennis Star Seeks to Join Husband. 1 June 2011. The New York Times. 20 March 1957.
  4. http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=6580 SIMON-ALMASI Agnes (FRG)
  5. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123. 2018-02-28. 2018-09-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html. dead.
  6. Web site: Profile. Table Tennis Guide.
  7. Book: Montague, Trevor. A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. 2004. The Bath Press. 0-316-72645-1.
  8. Book: Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian. The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. 1987. Guinness Superlatives. 0-85112-492-5. registration.

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