Thomas von Scheele (born March 13, 1969 in
Bollnäs
Bollnäs () is a Swedish locality and the seat of Bollnäs Municipality, in Gävleborg County, Sweden. It had 26,937 inhabitants in 2017
History
The first recording of Bollnäs in writing is from 1312 when a vicar named Ingemund referred to it ...
) is a
left-handed
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Swedish
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table tennis
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player. He competed in the
men's doubles event at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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.
He won a gold medal in the double event of the
World Table Tennis Championships
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in 1991 with
Peter Karlsson. He also won several medals in the
European Table Tennis Championships
The European Table Tennis Championships is an international table tennis competition for the national teams of the member associations of the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU). First held in 1958, the ETTU organised the European Championships ever ...
. He later became a coach of Sweden's women table tennis team.
See also
*
List of table tennis players
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers is ...
References
Living people
1969 births
Swedish male table tennis players
People from Bollnäs
Olympic table tennis players of Sweden
Table tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Gävleborg County
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