Magnus Eliasson

Magnus Eliasson (* 1968 in Nacka near Stockholm ) is one of the world's best racketlon players .

Before his Racketlon career, he was a professional ice hockey player . His strengths in racketlon are squash and tennis.

With 36 World Tour titles, including three individual world championship titles and at 77 months as number one in the FIR World Rankings, he dominated the racketlon sport from 2002 to 2009. He was inducted into the FIR Hall of Fame founded in 2012 and is considered the best rackelon player ever. Despite his dominance in racketlon, he had to admit defeat by Mikko Kärkkäinen from Finland in the final of the World Cup in November 2005 in Vienna. Eliasson, Kärkkäinen, the Austrian Christoph Krenn , the Dane Jesper Ratzer and Lukas Windischberger are the players who have topped the racketlon world rankings to date.

successes

• World Champion 2002, 2003 and 2004.
• Winner of the Scottish Open in 2002, 2003 and 2004.
• English Open 2003 winner.
• Winner of the Austrian Open 2003.
• Winner of the Swedish Open in 2004 and 2005.
• Winner of the Canadian Open in 2004 and 2005.
• Winner of the 2004 British Open.
• Winner of the D'Hondt Belgian Open 2004.
• Winner of the Bulgarian Open 2004.
• Winner of the German Open 2004.
• 2nd place Finnish Open 2003 and 2004.
• 4th British Open 2003.
• 4th D'Hondt Belgian Open 2005.
• Swedish champion 2001, 2003, 2004.
• World ranking first

Individual evidence

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