Attila Simon (sport shooter)

Attila Simon
Personal information
Full name Attila Simon
Nationality  Hungary
Born (1970-06-01) 1 June 1970
Budapest, Hungary
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 m air pistol (AP60)
50 m pistol (FP)
Club Budapest Honvéd SE[1]
Coached by Mihály Tesánszky[1]

Attila Simon (born 1 June 1970 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sport shooter.[2] He has been selected to compete 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]

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. "Attila Simon". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 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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