Bo Persson (table tennis player)

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Bo Persson (born January 1, 1948 in Hörby ) is a Swedish table tennis player . In the 1960s and 1970s, he won four European and one world championships with the Swedish team .

Career

The left-hander Bo Persson achieved his first international success at the European Junior Championships in Prague in 1965, where he won the mixed title with Eva Johansson. With the adults he was mostly successful in team competitions. From 1968 to 1974 he took part in all four European championships and won gold with the team every time. He was nominated for world championships six times. Here, too, he won medals exclusively with the team, namely gold in 1973 and bronze in 1967 and 1975 .

At national Swedish championships he won three titles in doubles (1969 and 1971 with Hans Alsér , 1973 with Ingemar Wikström), in 1975 the mixed title with Birgitta Olsson and five titles with the teams Sölvesborgs BTK (1967), Boo KFUM (1973) and Falkenberg's BTK (1979, 1980, 1981).

He later became a coach.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
SWE European Championship 1974 Novi Sad YUG 1
SWE European Championship 1972 Rotterdam NED Quarter finals 1
SWE European Championship 1970 Moscow URS Quarter finals 1
SWE European Championship 1968 Lyon FRA 1
SWE European Youth Championship (Juniors) 1965 Prague TCH 1
SWE Nordic championships 1967 Helsinki FIN 1 2 1 1
SWE World Championship 1975 Calcutta IND last 128 last 16 no participants 3
SWE World Championship 1973 Sarajevo YUG last 128 last 64 last 64 1
SWE World Championship 1971 Nagoya JPN last 32 last 32 last 32 4th
SWE World Championship 1969 Munich FRG last 128 last 16 last 64 5
SWE World Championship 1967 Stockholm SWE last 64 last 32 last 64 3
SWE World Championship 1965 Ljubljana YUG Agony last 64 no participants

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Bo Persson (accessed December 18, 2018)
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1995/3 page 35
  3. ↑ National Swedish Championships 1925-2016 (Alla segrare 1925-2016) ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 18, 2018) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.svenskbordtennis.com
  4. ↑ Coaching in Sweden (accessed December 18, 2018)
  5. ↑ ITTF database (accessed December 18, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Persson, Bo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Hörby