Agnes Simon (''

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'' Almási; 21 June 1935 – 19 August 2020) was an international

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player from

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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 Béla Simon (born 4 August 1988) is a Hungarian rower. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the Men's Pair event together with his teammate Domonkos Széll. They were eliminated in the repechage round. He competed in the same ...

. They were accepted in the Netherlands and then in

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; 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 The European Table Tennis Championships is an international table tennis competition for the national teams of the member associations of the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU). First held in 1958, the ETTU organised the European Championships ever ...

and in the

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. Her three World Championship medals included a

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in the doubles at the

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with

Lívia Mossóczy Lívia Mossóczy (May 9, 1936 – August 18, 2017) was a female international table tennis player from Hungary. Table tennis career From 1957 to 1960 she won several medals in single, double, and team events in the Table Tennis European Champion ...

. She also won three

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titles.

References

Hungarian female table tennis players Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Germany 1935 births 2020 deaths Table tennis players from Budapest {{Hungary-tabletennis-bio-stub

Personal life

Table tennis career

See also

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