Attila Simon (sport shooter)

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Attila Simon
Personal information
Full nameAttila Simon
NationalityFlag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
Born (1970-06-01) 1 June 1970 (age 52)
Budapest, Hungary
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s)10 m air pistol (AP60)
50 m pistol (FP)
Club Budapest Honvéd SE [1]
Coached byMihály Tesánszky [1]

Attila Simon (born 1 June 1970 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sport shooter. [2] He has competed for Hungary in pistol shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has attained a top seven finish in a major international competition, spanning the 2003 European Championships. [1] Simon also trains under head coach Mihály Tesánszky for ten years as a member of the Hungarian shooting team at Budapest Honvéd SE. [1]

Simon qualified for the Hungarian squad in pistol shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He managed to get a minimum qualifying score of 555 to gain an Olympic quota place for Hungary in the free pistol, following his outstanding seventh-place finish at the European Championships in Plzen, Czech Republic one year earlier. [1] [3] [4] Simon got off to a shaky start on the first day of the Games by placing further down at a distant forty-third in the 10 m air pistol with a total of 562, just seven points better than his entry standard. [5] Three days later, in the 50 m pistol, Simon continued his unsteady Olympic feat with a qualifying score of 536 to end up in thirty-sixth out of forty-two shooters, failing to advance to the final. [6] [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "ISSF Profile – Attila Simon". ISSF . Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Attila Simon". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Világcsúcsnál jobb eredménnyel nyert Sidi a lövész ob-n" [Shooter Sidi obtained better results at the national championships] (in Hungarian). Index.hu. 11 April 2004. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "Shooting: Men's 10m Air Pistol Prelims". Athens 2004 . BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Shooting: Men's 50m Pistol Prelims". Athens 2004 . BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "Simon Attila szabadpisztolyban sem javított" [Attila Simon fails to reach the final] (in Hungarian). Origo.hu. 17 August 2004. Retrieved 23 August 2015.


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