Truls Möregårdh
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Born | (2002-02-16) 16 February 2002 (age 22) Hovmantorp, Sweden[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing style | Shakehands grip | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 3 (24 October 2022)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 16 (20 February 2024)[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Truls Carl Eric Möregårdh (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈtrɵ̌ls ˈmœ̂ːrɛˌɡoːɖ]; born 16 February 2002, also spelled Truls Moregard by World Table Tennis[4]) is a Swedish professional table tennis player. He won bronze with the Swedish team at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in 2018, as well as at the 2019 European Table Tennis Championships. In 2021, he won silver at the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships. He is right-handed and uses the European shakehand style to hold his racquet.
Career
The Swede 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, where he was able to reach the quarter-finals in an individual competition. With the Serbian Sabina Šurjan, 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 Šurjan won her singles against Su, Möregårdh and Šurjan 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.[5] In 2021 he became Swedish champion again when he defeated Anton Källberg in the final. As of 2023, he was playing for Lexuan Sports Group TTC in the China Table Tennis Super League.
Overview of titles and successes
Singles
- Europe Top-16 runner-up (2022) [6]
- 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)
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)
Personal life
Truls Möregårdh has a brother named Malte Möregårdh.[7]
References
- ^ "Truls Möregårdh: Sweden's rising table tennis star living out a 'fairytale'". olympics.com. 22 May 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ "ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking Men's Singles 2022 Week #43". ITTF. 24 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
- ^ "ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking". ITTF. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
- ^ Truls MOREGARD. World Table Tennis. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
- ^ "Bordtennislöftet Truls lyft – klar för Japans högstaliga". Aftonbladet. 19 June 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ "Swedish Prodigy Truls Moregardh reaches World Rank #14". TTCrunch.com. TTCrunch.
- ^ "Möregardh, Truls". Retrieved 26 January 2020.
External links
- Truls Möregårdh at World Table Tennis
- Truls Möregårdh at Olympedia
- Truls Möregårdh at Table Tennis Media
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- 1958:
Zoltán Berczik, Zoltán Bubonyi, László Földy, Elemér Gyetvai, Ferenc Sidó (HUN)
- 1960:
Zoltán Berczik, Zoltán Bubonyi, László Földy, Tamas Halpert-Hollo, Ferenc Sidó (HUN)
- 1962:
Zeljko Hrbud, Istvan Korpa, Vojislav Marković, Janez Teran, Edvard Vecko (YUG)
- 1964:
Hans Alsér, Carl-Johan Bernhardt, Christer Johansson, Kjell Johansson, Lennart Oden (SWE)
- 1966:
Hans Alsér, Carl-Johan Bernhardt, Christer Johansson, Kjell Johansson, Jorgen Rosberg (SWE)
- 1968:
Hans Alsér, Stellan Bengtsson, Carl-Johan Bernhardt, Kjell Johansson, Bo Persson (SWE)
- 1970:
Hans Alsér, Stellan Bengtsson, Carl-Johan Bernhardt, Kjell Johansson, Bo Persson (SWE)
- 1972:
Stellan Bengtsson, Carl-Johan Bernhardt, Anders Johansson, Kjell Johansson , Bo Persson (SWE)
- 1974:
Stellan Bengtsson, Anders Johansson, Kjell Johansson, Bo Persson, Ingemar Wikström (SWE)
- 1976:
Damir Jurcic, Milivoj Karakašević, Zoran Kosanović, Antun Stipančić, Dragutin Šurbek (YUG)
- 1978:
Gábor Gergely, István Jónyer, Tibor Klampár, Tibor Kreisz (HUN)
- 1980:
Mikael Appelgren, Stellan Bengtsson, Ulf Carlsson, Erik Lindh, Ulf Thorsell (SWE)
- 1982:
Gábor Gergely, István Jónyer, Tibor Klampár, Zsolt Kriston, János Molnár (HUN)
- 1984:
Patrick Birocheau, Pierre Campagnolle, Francois Farout, Patrick Renverse, Jacques Secrétin (FRA)
- 1986:
Mikael Appelgren, Ulf Carlsson, Erik Lindh, Jörgen Persson, Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
- 1988:
Mikael Appelgren, Ulf Bengtsson, Erik Lindh, Jörgen Persson, Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
- 1990:
Mikael Appelgren, Peter Karlsson, Erik Lindh, Jörgen Persson, Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
- 1992:
Mikael Appelgren, Peter Karlsson, Erik Lindh, Jörgen Persson, Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
- 1994:
Nicolas Chatelain, Patrick Chila, Damien Éloi, Jean-Philippe Gatien, Christophe Legoût (FRA)
- 1996:
Peter Karlsson, Erik Lindh, Jörgen Persson, Thomas von Scheele, Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
- 1998:
Nicolas Chatelain, Patrick Chila, Damien Éloi, Jean-Philippe Gatien, Eric Varin (FRA)
- 2000:
Fredrik Håkansson, Peter Karlsson, Magnus Molin, Jörgen Persson, Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
- 2002:
Fredrik Håkansson, Peter Karlsson, Jens Lundqvist, Magnus Molin, Jan-Ove Waldner (SWE)
- 2003:
Dzmitry Baltrushka, Evgueni Chtchetinine, Dmitry Chumakou, Dmitry Davidovich, Vladimir Samsonov (BLR)
- 2005:
Allan Bentsen, Michael Maze, Martin Monrad, Finn Tugwell, Christoffer Petersen (DEN)
- 2007:
Timo Boll, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Jörg Roßkopf, Bastian Steger, Christian Süß (GER)
- 2008:
Patrick Baum, Timo Boll, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Bastian Steger, Christian Süß (GER)
- 2009:
Patrick Baum, Timo Boll, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Bastian Steger, Christian Süß (GER)
- 2010:
Patrick Baum, Timo Boll, Patrick Franziska, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Christian Süß (GER)
- 2011:
Patrick Baum, Timo Boll, Ruwen Filus, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Bastian Steger (GER)
- 2013:
Patrick Baum, Patrick Franziska, Ruwen Filus, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Bastian Steger (GER)
- 2014:
Tiago Apolónia, Diogo Chen, Marcos Freitas, João Geraldo, João Monteiro (POR)
- 2015:
Chen Weixing, Stefan Fegerl, Robert Gardos, Daniel Habesohn, Dominik Habesohn (AUT)
- 2017:
Timo Boll, Ruwen Filus, Patrick Franziska, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Ricardo Walther (GER)
- 2019:
Timo Boll, Benedikt Duda, Ruwen Filus, Patrick Franziska, Dimitrij Ovtcharov (GER)
- 2021:
Benedikt Duda, Ruwen Filus, Patrick Franziska, Dang Qiu, Kay Stumper (GER)
- 2023:
Mattias Falck, Anton Källberg, Kristian Karlsson, Truls Möregårdh, Jon Persson (SWE)