Agnes Simon

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Agnes Simon

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Personal information
Full name	Ágnes Simon-Almási
Nationality	Hungary Netherlands West Germany
Born	21 June 1935 Budapest
Died	19 August 2020(2020-08-19) (aged 85)
Sport
Sport	Table tennis
Medal record Table tennis Representing West Germany European Championships Bronze medal – third place 1976 Prague Doubles Silver medal – second place 1972 Rotterdam Team Silver medal – second place 1970 Moscow Doubles Gold medal – first place 1968 Lyon Team Bronze medal – third place 1966 London Doubles Gold medal – first place 1962 Berlin Singles Silver medal – second place 1962 Berlin Doubles Silver medal – second place 1962 Berlin Mixed doubles Gold medal – first place 1962 Berlin Team Representing Hungary World Championships Gold medal – first place 1957 Stockholm Doubles Silver medal – second place 1954 Wembley Team Bronze medal – third place 1953 Bucharest Team

Agnes Simon (née Almási; 21 June 1935 – 19 August 2020) 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. 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.

Her three World Championship medals included a gold medal in the doubles at the 1957 World Table Tennis Championships with Lívia Mossóczy.

She also won three English Open titles.

See also

• List of table tennis players
• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists