Lena Andersson (table tennis player)

Lena Andersson (born July 3, 1952 ) is a Swedish table tennis player and trainer.

Player career

Andersson played in the Swedish clubs IFK Lund, RAA BTK and Arhov IK. From 1967 to 1974 Andersson was called up to the Swedish national team 80 times. At the European Youth Championships in 1970 she reached the semi-finals in singles and doubles, in mixed she won silver with Stellan Bengtsson . Two years later she reached the final again with Stellan Bengtsson at the Senior European Championships in mixed.

From 1967 to 1973 she was represented at all four world championships . She was nominated three times for the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 , in 1972 she finished 5th.

In 1974 Andersson ended her career as a competitive athlete. She currently plays at the club BSV Munich with the men's team in the lower classes at district level.

trainer

In 1971 Andersson began training as a coach in Sweden. In 1973 and 1974 she coached the Swedish team at the European Youth Championship. At the same time, she completed a degree as a sports and leisure teacher. On September 1, 1976, she took over the office of regional trainer at the Lower Saxony table tennis association , where she mainly took care of the youth sector. She held the office until September 1980. During this time she also played for the Bundesliga club TTV Rinteln. Later she worked for other TT regional associations, such as the Bavarian State Association (from October 1, 1984). Until 2005 she was the head trainer in the Badischer Disabled and Rehabilitation Sports Association BBS.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
SWE	European Championship	1972	Rotterdam	NED			silver
SWE	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1970	Teeside	CLOSELY	Semifinals		silver
SWE	EURO TOP12	1974	Trollhatten	SWE	Scratched
SWE	EURO TOP12	1973	Boeblingen	FRG	10
SWE	EURO TOP12	1972	Zagreb	YUG	5
SWE	Nordic championships	1969	Solvesborg	SWE	silver	silver	silver
SWE	Nordic championships	1967	Helsinki	FIN	Semifinals
SWE	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	last 64	last 32	last 64	9
SWE	World Championship	1971	Nagoya	JPN	last 32	last 16	last 64	10
SWE	World Championship	1969	Munich	FRG	Agony	last 32	last 64	10
SWE	World Championship	1967	Stockholm	SWE	last 64	last 32	last 64

Individual evidence

1. ↑ District Munich-West 2010/2011, Men's 4th District League South (accessed on July 10, 2012)
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1981/2 regional page 31
3. ↑ Lena Andersson (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 3, 2011)

literature

• Lena Andersson new national trainer of the TTVN , DTS magazine , 1976/18 page 42
• Claus Wagner: Running is training for the psyche - Bavaria's association trainer Lena Andersson attaches importance to the physique , DTS magazine , 1993/11 page 13

Web links

• Tommy Andersson: Ingen har nått Längre än Lena , pages 12–13 ( Memento from August 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Swedish, accessed December 30, 2015; PDF; 4.0 MB)