Agnes Simon

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Agnes Simon

Agnes Simon (née Almási; 21 June 1935 – 19 August 2020[1]) was an international table tennis player from Hungary.

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Agnes Simon
Agnes Simon in 1962
Personal information
Full nameÁgnes Simon-Almási
Nationality Hungary  Netherlands  West Germany
Born21 June 1935
Budapest
Died19 August 2020(2020-08-19) (aged 85)
Medal record
Table tennis
Representing  West Germany
European Championships
1976 PragueDoubles
1972 RotterdamTeam
1970 MoscowDoubles
1968 LyonTeam
1966 LondonDoubles
1962 BerlinSingles
1962 BerlinDoubles
1962 BerlinMixed doubles
1962 BerlinTeam
Representing  Hungary
World Championships
1957 StockholmDoubles
1954 WembleyTeam
1953 BucharestTeam
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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.

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