Agnes Simon (table tennis player)

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Agnes Simon at the Dutch championship in 1961

Agnes Simon (birth name Almasy , born June 21, 1935 in Budapest - some sources give June 25 as her birthday; †  August 19, 2020 ) was a Hungarian- German table tennis player . From 1953 to the 1970s it was among the best in the world. She started for three different nations - Hungary, the Netherlands and Germany - and achieved numerous successes, including a. when participating in nine European and nine world championships.

Career

Hungary

Born in Budapest, Agnes Simon also initially played for Hungary. As a Hungarian, she was represented at four world championships. She took top positions with the Hungarian team. Together with Lívia Mossóczy , she won the 1957 world championship in doubles; in the final they defeated the English doubles Diane Rowe / Ann Haydon .

Netherlands

After participating in the 1957 World Cup , Agnes Simon did not return to Hungary with her husband Béla . Instead, she went to the Netherlands. At the 1959 World Cup in Dortmund, however, she was not used in the Dutch women's team. However, she entered the individual competitions as a "Dutch woman". In 1960 she took part in the European Championship.

At the international German championships in Berlin in 1960, she was first in singles and mixed.

Germany

Agnes Simon in 1962

In 1960 Simon moved to Germany and joined the TT club DSC Kaiserberg . It was not until March 1962 - shortly before the start of the European Championship in Berlin - that the world association ITTF , the European TT Association ETTU and the Dutch TT Association granted approval for the DTTB , whereupon Simon was also able to perform internationally for Germany. In November 1966, together with her husband Béla Simon, she received German citizenship.

For Germany she competed in another four TT world championships (in 1969 she was absent due to an injury) and eight European championships. In 1962, she immediately became European Champion in Berlin singles. She also took first place with the German women's team, and came second in doubles. She repeated her success with the women's team in 1968 in Lyon.

First of all, the world rules did not allow Agnes Simon to take part in national championships. Therefore, in January 1965, the DTTB added the following to these game rules: If a foreigner or stateless person has been nominated for the national team, he is entitled to take part in national championships. As a result, Simon was also nationally successful: three times German champion in singles and six times in the doubles, five first places in the national ranking tournament and - with the team of Kaiserberg - 19 German championships and 13 Cup victories are their most important national achievements.

Between 1962 and 1976 she played 93 official internationals for Germany.

At the end of the 1970s, Simon withdrew a little from competitive sports, although she still appeared in the 1st Bundesliga in the 1990s with DSC Kaiserberg . When the Kaiserberg club withdrew its team from competitive sports in 2001, Simon switched to SC Bayer 05 Uerdingen , and in 2004 to SpVgg Meiderich 06/95 . Since the 2009/10 season she played in the men's team of the DJK Rheinland Ruhrort / Meiderich in the 2nd district class.

Agnes Simon lived in Moers. She was married to the association trainer Béla Simon (1920-1996) and had two daughters (* 1959 and * 1963). She died in August 2020 after a brief illness at the age of 85.

successes

  • National German championships
  • Participation in nine world championships
    • 1953 in Bucharest: start for Hungary
      • Round of 16 singles, quarter-finals doubles, 3rd place with Hungarian team
    • 1954 in Wembley: start for Hungary
      • 2nd place with Hungarian team
    • 1955 in Utrecht: start for Hungary
      • Quarterfinals doubles, 4th place with Hungarian team
    • 1957 in Stockholm: start for Hungary
    • 1959 in Dortmund: Start for the Netherlands (only individual)
      • Quarterfinals doubles
    • 1963 in Prague: start for Germany
      • Round of 16 singles, quarter finals doubles, 9th place with German team
    • 1965 in Ljubljana: start for Germany
      • Round of 16 in singles, 6th place with German team
    • 1967 in Stockholm: start for Germany
      • Round of 16 singles, quarter finals doubles, 6th place with German team
    • 1971 in Nagoya: start for Germany
      • 7th place with German team
  • Participation in nine European championships
    • 1960 in Zagreb: Round of 16 singles
    • 1962 in Berlin: 1st place singles, 2nd place doubles (with Inge Harst ), 2nd place mixed (with Eberhard Schöler ), 1st place with women's team
    • 1964 in Malmö: quarter finals singles, 6th place with women's team
    • 1966 in London: quarter-finals singles, 3rd place doubles (with Edit Buchholz ), 4th place with women's team
    • 1968 in Lyon: Round of 16 singles, quarter finals doubles, 1st place with women's team
    • 1970 in Moscow: 2nd place doubles (with Diane Schöler ), quarter-finals mixed, 7th place with 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: only individual
  • Europe TOP-12
    • 1971 in Zadar: 5th place
    • 1972 in Zagreb: 11th place
    • 1973 in Böblingen: 9th place
  • European Champion Clubs' Cup with DSC Kaiserberg
    • 1965: 2nd place
    • 1966: 1st place
  • European Nancy Evans Cup (“Messepokal”) with DSC Kaiserberg
    • 1971: 1st place
    • 1981: 1st place
  • International championships
    • 1957 Scandinavia: 2nd place individual
    • 1958 England: 1st place singles
    • 1958 Austria: 1st place individual
    • 1958 England: 1st place singles
    • 1958 Scandinavia: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Birgitta Tegner, Sweden)
    • 1959 Scandinavia: 2nd place singles, 3rd place doubles (with Birgitta Tegner, Sweden)
    • 1960 Berlin: 1st place singles (start for NED), 4th place doubles (with Ghislaine Roland), 1st place mixed (with Bert Onnes )
    • 1960 England: 1st place individual
    • 1960 Scandinavia: 1st place individual
    • 1961 Belgium: 1st place individual
    • 1961 Berlin: 1st place singles, 4th place doubles (with Gudrun Müller )
    • 1961 France: 1st place singles, 1st place mixed (with Dieter Michalek )
    • 1961 Netherlands: 1st place singles, 1st place mixed (with Eberhard Schöler )
    • 1961 Scandinavia: 1st place individual
    • 1962 St. Ingbert: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Inge Harst ), 1st place mixed (with Eberhard Schöler )
    • 1962 France: 1st place individual
    • 1962 Scandinavia: 2nd place singles, 2nd place doubles (with Inge Harst )
    • 1962 Netherlands: 1st place mixed (with Eberhard Schöler )
    • 1965 Frankfurt / Main: 2nd place mixed (with Eberhard Schöler )
    • 1965 Netherlands: 1st place doubles (with Edit Buchholz )
    • 1966 Lübeck: 2nd place doubles (with Edit Buchholz )
    • 1968 Wiesloch: 1st place double (with Edit Buchholz )
    • 1968 Netherlands: 1st place double (with Edit Buchholz )
    • 1969 Belgium: 1st place singles, 1st place doubles (with Diane Schöler )
    • 1969 Scandinavia: 1st place individual, 2nd place with women's team
    • 1970 Oberhausen: 1st place doubles (with Diane Schöler )
    • 1970 Netherlands: 1st place individual
    • 1973 Poland: 1st place doubles (with Susanne Wenzel )
  • National ranking tournaments
    • 1962 in Berlin: 1st place
    • 1965 in Berlin: 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 TT Association) )
    • 1966 in Neckarsulm: 1st place
    • 1968 in Hückeswagen: 1st place
  • societies
  • Leaderboards
    • 1962: 1st place in the German ranking list
    • 1963: 1st place in the German ranking list
    • 1965–1967: 1st place in the German ranking list
    • 1969: 1st place in the German ranking list
    • 1962: 1st place European association ETTU
    • 1978: 7th place in the ITTF world rankings

Results from the ITTF database

Association competition year place country singles Double Mixed team
FRG European Championship 1976 Prague TCH Semifinals
FRG European Championship 1972 Rotterdam NED Quarter finals 2
FRG European Championship 1970 Moscow URS silver Quarter finals
FRG European Championship 1968 Lyon FRA Quarter finals Quarter finals 1
FRG European Championship 1966 London CLOSELY last 16 Semifinals
FRG European Championship 1964 Malmo SWE Quarter finals
FRG European Championship 1962 Berlin FRG gold silver silver 1
NED European Championship 1960 Zagreb YUG last 16 Quarter finals
FRG EURO TOP12 1973 Boeblingen FRG 9
FRG EURO TOP12 1972 Zagreb YUG 11
FRG EURO TOP12 1971 Zadar YUG 5
FRG World Championship 1971 Nagoya JPN last 64 last 16 last 64 7th
FRG World Championship 1967 Stockholm SWE last 16 Quarter finals last 128 7th
FRG World Championship 1965 Ljubljana YUG last 16 last 32 last 16 6th
FRG World Championship 1963 Prague TCH last 16 Quarter finals last 32 9
NED World Championship 1959 Dortmund FRG Quarter finals Quarter finals last 128
HUN World Championship 1957 Stockholm SWE last 128 gold last 32 4th
HUN World Championship 1955 Utrecht NED last 32 Quarter finals last 16 4th
HUN World Championship 1954 Wembley CLOSELY last 128 last 16 last 16 2
HUN World Championship 1953 Bucharest ROU last 16 Quarter finals last 32 3
HUN World Championship 1950 Budapest HUN last 64 Quarter finals last 64

Web links

Commons : Agnes Simon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Simone Hinz: Former double world champion Agnes Simon has passed away. German Table Tennis Association (DTTB), August 19, 2020, accessed on August 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2008/12 regional north page 2
  3. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1966/23 Edition North East Page 15
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1965/3 West issue, page 2
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/9 page 10
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 2001/6 page 28
  7. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2004/8 page 7
  8. ↑ Agnes Simon (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 3, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Simon, Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Almasy, Agnes (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 2020