Agnes Simon
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| Full name | Ágnes Simon-Almási | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Hungary  Netherlands  West Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 June 1935 Budapest | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 19 August 2020 (aged 85) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]References
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- ^ Simone Hinz (19 August 2020). Deutscher Tischtennisbund (DTTB) (ed.). "Ehemalige Doppel-Weltmeisterin Agnes Simon ist verstorben". Archived from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ "Hungarian Table Tennis Star Again Seeks Asylum From Reds". The Hartford Courant. 21 March 1957. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
- ^ "ATHLETE ASKS ASYLUM; Hungarian Table Tennis Star Seeks to Join Husband". The New York Times. 20 March 1957. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
- ^ SIMON-ALMASI Agnes (FRG) Archived 2012-10-17 at the Wayback Machine. ittf.com
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123. Archived from the original on 22 September 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
- ^ Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian (1987). The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. Guinness Superlatives. ISBN 0-85112-492-5.
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