Agnes Simon

Agnes Simon (born Almasy, born June 21, 1935 in Budapest - some sources give as a birthday June 25, at ) is a former Hungarian table tennis player. From 1953 to the 1970s, it belonged to the world's best. She started for three different nations - Hungary, the Netherlands and Germany - and achieved numerous successes, including when participating in nine European and nine world championships.

Career

Hungary

Born in Budapest played Agnes Simon also first for Hungary. As a Hungarian, it was represented at four World Championships. They finished with the Hungarian team each top positions. In 1957 she won the World Championship in doubles together with Livia Mossóczy by the English double Diane Rowe / Ann Haydon defeated in the final.

Netherlands

Following their participation in the 1957 World Cup Agnes Simon did not return with her husband Béla returned to Hungary. Instead, she went to the Netherlands. At the World Championship 1959 in Dortmund but has not been used in the Dutch women's team. However, she appeared as " Dutch " in the individual competitions at. In 1960, she competed at the European Championships.

The International German Championships 1960 in Berlin, she was in singles and mixed first.

Germany

In 1960 Simon to Germany and joined the TT Club DSC Kaiser mountain. It was only in March 1962 - shortly before the European Championships in Berlin - members of the ITTF, the European Tennis Association ETTU and the Dutch Tennis Association the release for the DTTB what Simon could also occur internationally for Germany. In November 1966, she got together with her husband Dr. Béla Simon, the German citizenship.

For Germany, she joined another 4 TT World Championships ( 1969, she was missing because of injury ) and 8 at European Championships. Right away she was in Berlin in 1962 European Champion in singles. Even with the German women's team finished in 1st place it, double they came in second. The success with the women's team repeated in 1968 in Lyon.

First, it allowed the Sweepstakes order not to that Agnes Simon was able to attend national championships. Therefore, the DTTB added in January 1965 by the addition of these Game Rules: If an alien or a stateless person for the national team has been nominated, he shall be entitled to participate in national championships. As a result, Simon was also nationally successful: three times German Champion in singles and 6 times in a double, five first places in the national ranking tournament and with the team of Kaiserberg 19 German championships and 13 Cup victories are the main achievements.

Between 1962 and 1976 they played 93 official matches for Germany.

The late 1970s, Simon retired from competitive sport something, although they still occurred in the 1990s with the DSC Kaiser mountain in the 1st Bundesliga. When the club Kaiserberg 2001, his team retired from competitive sports Simon moved to SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen, in 2004 for SpVgg Meiderich 06 / 95th Since the 2009/10 season she played in the men's team of DJK Rhineland Ruhr place / Meiderich in the 2nd circuit class.

Agnes Simon lives in Moers. She was married to the head coach Béla Simon ( * 1920, † 1996) and has two daughters ( born 1959 and * 1963).

Achievements

National German Championships 1966 Osnabrück - 2nd place individual, 2nd place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
1967 Berlin - 1st place individual, 1st place doubles (with Edit Buchholz), 2nd place Mixed ( with Erich Arndt )
1968 Böblingen - 2nd place individual, 1st place doubles (with Edit Buchholz), 1st place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
1969 Hagen - 1st place individual, 1st place doubles (with Edit Buchholz), 2nd place Mixed ( with Jochen Leiss )
1970 Frankfurt / Main - 4th place individual, 2nd place doubles (with Rosemarie Seidel ), 2nd place Mixed ( with Jochen Leiss )
1971 Hannover - 4th place individual, 1st place doubles (with Diane Scholer )
1972 Karlsruhe - 1st place doubles (with Diane Scholer ), 1st place Mixed ( with Klaus Schmittinger )
1973 Munich - 4th place Mixed ( with Klaus Schmittinger )
1974 Saarbrücken - 1st place doubles (with Wiebke Hendriksen )
1975 Hannover - 2nd place single, double 4th place ( with Wiebke Hendriksen )
1976 Essen - 1st place individual
1977 Berlin - 2nd place individual, 2nd place doubles (with Monika Stork )
1978 Lübeck - 4th place individual, 2nd place doubles (with Monika Stork )
1979 Rüsselsheim - 2nd place doubles (with Monika Stork )

Participation in nine World Championships 1953 in Bucharest: Home for Hungary Second round in singles, doubles quarter-finals, 3rd place with Hungarian team

2nd place with Hungarian team

Quarterfinals Doubles, 4th place with Hungarian team

Quarter-final double

Second round in singles, doubles quarterfinals, 9th place with German team

Second round in singles in 6th place with German team

Second round in singles, doubles quarter-final, 6th place with German team

7th place with German team

Participation in 9 European Championships 1960 in Zagreb: Eighth Single
In Berlin in 1962: 1st Single, 2nd place doubles (with Inge Harst ), 2nd place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer ), 1st place with women's team
1964 in Malmö: Quarter-finals Individual, 6th place with women's team
In London in 1966: Quarter-finals Individual, 3rd place doubles (with Edit Buchholz), 4th place with women's team
1968 in Lyon: Eighth single, double quarter-finals, 1st place with women's team
1970 in Moscow: 2nd place doubles (with Diane Scholer ), quarter-finals Mixed, with 7th place women's team
1972 in Rotterdam: Quarter-Finals Doubles, 2nd place with women's team
1976 in Prague: 3rd place doubles (with Monika Kneip )
1978 in Duisburg: Individual only

Europe Top 12 1971 in Zadar: 5th place
1972 in Zagreb: 11th place
1973 in Böblingen: 9th place

European Cup champion with DSC Kaiserberg 1965: 2nd place
1966: 1st place

European Nancy Evans Cup ( " Fairs Cup " ) with DSC Kaiserberg 1971: 1st Place
1981: 1st place

International Championships 1957 Scandinavia: 2nd place individual
England 1958: 1st Single
1958 Austria: 1st Single
England 1958: 1st Single
1958 Scandinavia: 1st place individual, 1st place doubles (with Birgitta Tegner, SVE)
1959 Scandinavia: 2nd place Individual, 3rd place doubles (with Birgitta Tegner, SVE)
1960 Berlin: 1st Single (start for NED), 4th place doubles (with Ghislaine Roland ), 1st place Mixed ( with Bert Onnes )
England 1960: 1st Single
1960 Scandinavia: 1st Single
1961 Belgium: 1st Single
1961 Berlin: 1st Single, Double 4th place ( with Gudrun Müller)
1961 France: 1st place individual, 1st place Mixed ( with Dieter Michalek )
1961 Netherlands: 1st place individual, 1st place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
1961 Scandinavia: 1st Single
1962 St.Ingbert: 1st place individual, 1st place doubles (with Inge Harst ), 1st place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
1962 France: 1st Single
1962 Scandinavia: 2nd place single, double 2nd place ( with Inge Harst )
1962 Netherlands: 1st place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
1965 Frankfurt / Main:. 2nd place Mixed ( with Eberhard Scholer )
1965 Netherlands: 1st doubles (with Edit Buchholz)
Lübeck 1966: 2nd place doubles (with Edit Buchholz)
1968 Wiesloch: 1st doubles (with Edit Buchholz)
1968 Netherlands: 1st doubles (with Edit Buchholz)
1969 Belgium: 1st place individual, 1st place doubles (with Diane Scholer )
1969 Scandinavia: 1st Single, 2nd place with women's team
1970 Oberhausen: 1st doubles (with Diane Scholer )
1970 Netherlands: 1st place individual
1973 Poland: 1st doubles (with Susanne Wenzel)

National ranking tournaments In Berlin in 1962: 1st place
In Berlin in 1965: 1st place
1966 in Wiesloch: 1st place
1967 in Hagen: 1st place
1968 in Saarbrücken: 2nd place
1972 in Zweibrücken: 4th place
1975 in Hattersheim: 1st place

German team championships with DSC Kaiserberg 1962: 1st place
1963: 1st Place
1965-1972: 1st place
1975-1978: 1st place
1981: 1st place
1982: 1st Place
1984: 1st Place
1988: 1st Place

German Team Cup championships with DSC Kaiserberg 1964-1969: 1st place
1971: 1st Place
1972: 1st place
1976-1979: 1st place
1981: 1st place

Germany Cup ( with WTTV (West German Tennis Association ) ) 1966 in Neckarsulm: 1st place
1968 in Hückeswagen: 1st place

Clubs 1960-2001 DSC Kaiserberg
2001-2004 SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen
2004-2009 Spvgg, Meiderich 06 /95 ( Serie A )
Since 2009: DJK Rhineland Ruhr place / Meiderich

Rankings 1962: 1st place in the German ranking
1963: 1st place in the German ranking
1965-1967: 1st place in the German ranking
1969: 1st place in the German ranking
1962: 1st place European Association ETTU
1978: 7th place ITTF World Ranking

Results from the ITTF database

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