Bo Persson is a male former international

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player for Sweden.

Table tennis career

He won a

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at the

1967 World Table Tennis Championships The 1967 World Table Tennis Championships were held at the Johanneshovs Isstadion in Stockholm from April 11 to April 21, 1967. During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese sports professionals were denounced as 'Sprouts of Revisionism' and were de ...

in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event), a feat which he repeated eight years later at the

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. In between the two bronze medals he recorded his greatest achievement by winning a

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in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) at the 1973 World Table Tennis Championships as part of the Sweden team that contained Anders Johansson, Kjell Johansson,

Stellan Bengtsson Stellan Bengtsson (born 26 July 1952) is a Swedish former table tennis player. He became the first Swede to win the men's singles at the World Table Tennis Championships in 1971.Ingemar Wikström Ingemar Wikström is a male former international table tennis player for Sweden. Table tennis career He won a gold medal in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) at the 1973 World Table Tennis Championships as part of the Sweden team that conta ...

. He also won four gold medals in the team event at the

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and played wearing spectacles. He later became a coach.

References

Swedish male table tennis players World Table Tennis Championships medalists {{Sweden-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

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