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Lajos Simó

Hungarian handball player (1943-2019)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ6474450 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lajos Simó (12 July 1943 – 16 September 2019) was a Hungarian handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was born in Reghin.

In 1972 he was part of the Hungarian team which finished eighth in the Olympic tournament. He played all six matches and scored twelve goals. Simó also participated on three World Championships in row between 1967 and 1974, achieving his best result in the last one with a seventh place.

Editorial summary

“Lajos Simó” enters the record as hungarian handball player (1943-2019). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lajos, Simó and Hungarian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1943, 2019, 1972, 1967—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1943-07-12. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lajos, Simó and Hungarian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Lajos Simó” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lajos, Simó and Hungarian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6474450. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1943, 2019, 1972 and 1967.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lajos Simó” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.