| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Attila Simon |
| Nationality |  Hungary |
| Born | 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) 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 Plzeň, 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]