Truls Carl Eric Möregårdh (; born 16 February 2002) is a Swedish professional
table tennis
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player. He took silver in the men's singles event at the
2024 Summer Olympics
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, as well as at the
2021 World Table Tennis Championships. In 2018, he took bronze with the Swedish team at the
World Team Table Tennis Championships.
Playing style and equipment
Möregårdh is right-handed and uses the
European shakehand style to hold his racket. He has drawn comparisons to the Swedish great
Jan-Ove Waldner for his extensive use of backhand blocking and backhand punching. He also regularly employs a number of unconventional techniques, such as the chop block, which contribute to his creative playing style.
Möregårdh is notable for being one of the first elite players to use a
table tennis racket with the
Stiga
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Cybershape blade, which has a hexagonal shape as opposed to the more common oval shape. As a Stiga-sponsored athlete, he uses the Stiga Cybershape Carbon CWT Truls Edition blade and the Stiga DNA Platinum XH rubber on both sides.
Career
Möregårdh was considered a great talent from an early age. He achieved his first international successes in 2016. Overall, he is two-time European student champion and one European youth champion.
He finished second in 2016, 2017 and 2018. He also won the youth TOP 10 in 2016. In 2017 and 2018 he was junior vice world champion and was allowed to take part in the
2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games in
Buenos Aires
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, where he was able to reach the quarter-finals in an individual competition. He reached the game for the bronze medal in the mixed competition, where they were subject to the representation of Taiwan,
Su Pei-ling and
Lin Yun-ju. While Cacciamani won his singles against Su, Möregårdh and Cacciamani lost in doubles.
With the team he reached 4th place. From 2018 he took part in adult tournaments with increasing frequency, notable successes being winning the bronze medal at the
2018 World Cup and the
2019 European Table Tennis Championships. In 2019 he became Swedish champion after beating
Kristian Karlsson in the final. In the same year he moved from Swedish club Eslövs AI BTK to the Japanese club TT Saitama.
In 2021 he became Swedish champion again when he defeated
Anton Källberg in the final. The same year he won the silver in the
2021 World Championships, losing the final against
Fan Zhendong.
As of 2023, he was playing for Lexuan Sports Group TTC in the
China Table Tennis Super League.
At the
2024 Summer Olympics
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, Möregårdh won the silver medal, defeating the top-ranked
Wang Chuqin in the round of 32 of the
Men's singles but ultimately losing the final to
Fan Zhendong. Together with
Anton Källberg and
Kristian Karlsson, Möregårdh went on to win his second Olympic silver medal in the
team event following a defeat against the Chinese team in the final.
Overview of titles and successes
Singles
* Europe Top-16 runner-up (2022)
* World Championship runner-up (2021)
* Two-time youth vice world champion (2017, 2019)
* European Youth Champion (2019), Silver (2018)
* Two-time vice European champion (2016, 2017)
* Winner of the youth TOP 10 (2016)
* Swedish Champion (2019, 2021)
* Olympics Silver Medalist (2024)
Doubles
* European Schoolchildren (2017)
* Vice-Schoolchildren European Champion (2016), Vice-Youth European Champion (2019)
Mixed doubles
* Bronze at the European Youth Championships (2019)
* 4th place at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games
Team
* Vice European Schoolchildren (2016)
* 3rd place at the World Championships (2018)
* 3rd place at the European Championships (2019)
* 3rd place at the European Championships (2021)
* Gold at the European Championships (2023)
* Silver at the Paris Olympics (2024)
Personal life
When Möregårdh was 12 years old, his entire family relocated to
Eslöv so that he would have better conditions to pursue his table tennis goals.
Möregårdh has a brother named Malte Möregårdh, who coaches him.
References
External links
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Living people
2002 births
Swedish table tennis players
People from Lessebo Municipality
Sportspeople from Kronoberg County
Table tennis players at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Table tennis players at the 2023 European Games
European Games silver medalists for Sweden
European Games medalists in table tennis
Table tennis players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Olympic table tennis players for Sweden
Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for Sweden
Olympic medalists in table tennis
21st-century Swedish sportsmen