Full name Attila Simon Nationality Hungary Name Attila Simon | Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Role Sport shooter Weight 69 kg (152 lb) | |
Event(s) 10 m air pistol (AP60)50 m pistol (FP) | ||
Attila Simon (born June 1, 1970 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sport shooter. 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. Simon also trains under head coach Mihály Tesánszky for ten years as a member of the Hungarian shooting team at Budapest Honvéd SE.
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. 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. 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.