Jörgen Persson (born 22 April 1966 in
Halmstad
Halmstad () is a port, university, industrial and recreational urban areas of Sweden, city at the mouth of the Nissan (river), Nissan river, in the provinces of Sweden, province of Halland on the Sweden, Swedish west coast. Halmstad is the seat ...
,
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
) is a Swedish
table tennis
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player.
Career
In two memorable
World Table Tennis Championships
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finals he faced fellow Swede
Jan-Ove Waldner in 1989 and 1991, losing the former and winning the latter. He also won four World Championship titles in Team.
Persson represented Sweden in every
Olympic Games
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from when table tennis was introduced into the Olympic program in 1988 until 2012. After the 2012 Olympics he officially retired.
Along with Croatian
Zoran Primorac
Zoran Primorac (born 10 May 1969) is a retired Croatian table tennis player. He is a two-time winner of the World Cup and one of only three table tennis players to have competed at seven Olympic Games. His highest ITTF world ranking was number ...
and Belgian
Jean-Michel Saive, he was the first table tennis player to have competed at
seven Olympic Games. His game is based on a powerful backhand stroke and a regular forehand.
His best Olympic result is a fourth place at the
2000 Summer Olympics
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and
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...
. At the latter, he was the best non-Chinese in the entire event.
Post-retirement
Persson is the national table tennis team coach for Sweden, which was the winning team at the 2023 European Championships in Malmö . It was the first time in a whole 21 years that Sweden stood as winners in a team event in table tennis. The players in the Swedish team consisted of
Truls Möregårdh
Truls Carl Eric Möregårdh (; born 16 February 2002) is a Swedish professional table tennis player. He took silver in the men's singles event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, as well as at the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships. In 2018, he too ...
,
Mattias Falck
Mattias Falck (; , born 7 September 1991) is a Swedish table tennis player.
Career
He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics as he was part of the Swedish team in the men's team event. Mattias won two medals at the 2016 European Table Tennis Cha ...
,
Anton Källberg
Anton Sten Anders Källberg (; born 17 August 1997) is a Swedish professional table tennis player.
Career 2021
Källberg represented his country at the 2020 Summer Olympics
The officially the and officially branded as were an inter ...
,
Kristian Karlsson
Kristian Gunnar Karlsson (; born 6 August 1991) is a Swedish professional table tennis player.
Career
Born in Trollhättan, Västra Götaland, Karlsson started to play table tennis in his hometown club at the age of 8. He remained in Trollhätt ...
, and Jon Persson.
On September 20, 2023, Persson announced that he would make a comeback as a player in Kosta SK in the coming season.
See also
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List of table tennis players
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List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games
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References
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1966 births
Living people
Swedish male table tennis players
Olympic table tennis players for Sweden
Table tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Halmstad
World Table Tennis Championships medalists
20th-century Swedish sportsmen