Matilda Ekholm

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Matilda Ekholm Table tennis player
Matilda Ekholm
Matilda Ekholm, Top 16 Antibes 2017
Nation: SwedenSweden Sweden
Date of birth: June 15, 1982
Place of birth: Linkoping
Playing hand: Left handed
How to play: Shakehand , attack
Current world rankings : 30th
Best world ranking : 20 (March + April 2017)

Matilda Ekholm (born June 15, 1982 in Linköping ) is a Swedish table tennis player . She qualified three times for participation in the Olympic Games, but was only approved by the Swedish Olympic Committee the third time.

Matilda Ekholm has been training at the Werner Schlager Academy in Schwechat, Austria since 2014 and played for the WSA partner club SVNÖ Ströck. In 2018 she was signed by the German Bundesliga club ttc berlin .

Career

Matilda Ekholm played for the Swedish clubs Vikingstad SK (1990-1995), Saab BTK (1995-2000), Rönnige SK (2000-2001) and Ängby SK (2001-2004) before moving abroad in 2004. In 2000 and 2001 she won the individual Swedish Junior Championships. In 2012 she became the Swedish adult champion for the fourth time.

Since 2000 she has appeared in the ITTF Pro Tour tournaments. In 2005 she made it into the top 200 in the world, this year she also took part in the World and European Championships for the first time , in which she was always represented in the years that followed. At club level, she moved in 2004 from the Swedish club Ängby SK to the German club TTSV Saarlouis-Fraulautern , whose women's team was playing in the second division at the time. In 2007 she was promoted to the first division, the following year she left the club for Spain to the Photoprix Vic.

In 2008 she was in the top 100 of the world rankings for the first time and qualified for the Olympic Games , for which she was not approved by the Swedish NOK due to a lack of prospects of success. In 2010 she won bronze singles and silver doubles at the Morocco Open and thus her first medals on the World Tour . In 2012, she qualified for the first time in singles for the Grand Finals, where she reached the quarter-finals. She also qualified again for the Olympic Games . On the grounds that there was no chance that Matilda Ekholm could achieve a place in the top eight, the Swedish NOK refused her permission to start again. At this time Ekholm was world number 51, the male Swedish players Pär Gerell and Jörgen Persson , both of whom were allowed to start in singles, positions 80 and 88. Ekholm was able to take part in the World Cup in 2012 for the first time , but was eliminated without a win. In February 2013 she reached 34th place in the world, a personal record, and she also won bronze at the European Championships in doubles with Galia Dvorak this year . Another EM bronze medal followed with the team in 2014 .

After qualifying for the third time for the Olympic Games , she finally received approval from the Swedish NOK in 2016 and was among the best 32 in singles. Together with Mattias Karlsson , she also won European Championship silver in mixed in October . From 2016 Ekholm also formed a double with Georgina Póta , together they qualified for the Grand Finals in 2017 . Ekholm was also able to take part in the Europe Top 16 for the first time in 2017 and qualify there for the World Cup , in which it reached the main round. In March and April it was at number 20 in the world rankings and thus higher than ever before. In the Europe Top 16 2018 she came fourth, which was again enough for the World Cup qualification , in doubles she won the European Championship bronze for the second time . In 2018 she was signed by ttc berlin eastside , with whom she became German champion in 2019.

In 2020 Matilda Ekholm ended her career.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
SWE Europe Top 16 2020 Montreux SUI last 16
SWE Europe Top 16 2019 Montreux SUI last 16
SWE Europe Top 16 2018 Montreux SUI 4th Place
SWE Europe Top 16 2017 Antibes FRA 7th place
SWE European Games 2019 Minsk BLR last 16 last 16 Quarter finals
SWE European Games 2015 Baku AZE last 32 Quarter finals
SWE European Championship 2019 Nantes FRA 9-16 space
SWE European Championship 2018 Alicante ESP last 16 Semifinals Quarter finals
SWE European Championship 2017 Luxembourg LUX 12
SWE European Championship 2016 Budapest HUN Quarter finals last 16 silver
SWE European Championship 2015 Ekaterinburg RUS last 32 last 16 14th
SWE European Championship 2014 Lisbon POR Semifinals
SWE European Championship 2013 Schwechat AUT last 16 Semifinals
SWE European Championship 2012 Herning THE Quarter finals last 32
SWE European Championship 2011 Danzig POLE last 32 last 16 21st
SWE European Championship 2010 Ostrava CZE last 128 16
SWE European Championship 2009 Stuttgart GER last 32 last 32 17th
SWE European Championship 2008 St. Petersburg RUS last 32 last 64 25th
SWE European Championship 2007 Belgrade SRB last 32 last 16 last 128 16
SWE European Championship 2005 Aarhus THE last 32 last 64 10
SWE Nordic championships 2000 Tallinn EST gold gold
SWE Nordic championships 1998 Oslo NOR gold
SWE Olympic games 2016 Rio de Janeiro BRA last 32
SWE Challenge Series 2018 De Haan BEL last 16 Semifinals
SWE Challenge Series 2018 Zagreb CRO last 16 silver
SWE Challenge Series 2017 Otocec SLO last 16 gold
SWE Pro tour 2018 Budapest HUN last 32 Semifinals
SWE Pro tour 2017 Olomouc CZE last 16 silver
SWE Pro tour 2017 Panagyurishte BUL last 32 silver
SWE Pro tour 2017 New Delhi IND silver Semifinals
SWE Pro tour 2017 Budapest HUN last 16 silver
SWE Pro tour 2016 Stockholm SWE last 32 Semifinals
SWE Pro tour 2016 Olomouc CZE Semifinals gold
SWE Pro tour 2015 Doha QAT last 32 Semifinals
SWE Pro tour 2013 Stockholm SWE last 16
SWE Pro tour 2013 Olomouc CZE last 32 Quarter finals
SWE Pro tour 2013 Yokohama JPN last 16
SWE Pro tour 2013 Zagreb CRO silver
SWE Pro tour 2013 Almeria ESP Semifinals
SWE Pro tour 2012 Bremen GER last 64 last 16
SWE Pro tour 2012 Olomouc CZE Quarter finals Semifinals
SWE Pro tour 2012 Rabat MAR gold
SWE Pro tour 2012 Doha QAT last 32 last 16
SWE Pro tour 2012 Velenje SLO last 32 last 16
SWE Pro tour 2012 Budapest HUN last 16
SWE Pro tour 2011 Stockholm SWE last 64
SWE Pro tour 2011 Schwechat AUT last 32
SWE Pro tour 2011 Suzhou CHN last 64
SWE Pro tour 2011 Rabat MAR last 16 Semifinals
SWE Pro tour 2011 Almeria ESP last 32 last 16
SWE Pro tour 2011 Władysławowo POLE last 64
SWE Pro tour 2011 Sheffield CLOSELY last 64 last 16
SWE Pro tour 2011 Velenje SLO last 32
SWE Pro tour 2010 Budaörs HUN last 64
SWE Pro tour 2010 Rabat MAR Semifinals silver
SWE Pro tour 2010 Berlin GER last 64
SWE Pro tour 2009 Warsaw POLE last 64
SWE Pro tour 2009 Sheffield CLOSELY last 64
SWE Pro tour 2009 Bremen GER last 64
SWE Pro tour 2009 Velenje SVN last 64 last 16
SWE Pro tour 2008 Warsaw POLE last 32
SWE Pro tour 2008 Salzburg AUT last 32
SWE Pro tour 2008 Velenje SVN last 64
SWE Pro tour 2007 Stockholm SWE last 32 last 16
SWE Pro tour 2007 Bremen GER last 32
SWE Pro tour 2007 catfish AUT last 64
SWE Pro tour 2007 Zagreb HRV last 64
SWE Pro tour 2006 Warsaw POLE last 64
SWE Pro tour 2006 Belgrade SRB last 64
SWE Pro tour 2006 Santiago CHI last 64
SWE Pro tour 2006 Sao Paulo BRA last 32 last 16
SWE Pro tour 2006 Velenje SVN last 32
SWE Pro tour 2005 Gothenburg SWE last 32
SWE Pro tour 2005 Velenje SLO last 32
SWE Pro tour 2003 Malmo SWE last 64
SWE Pro tour 2003 Aarhus THE last 64
SWE Pro tour 2002 Courmayeur ITA last 64
SWE Pro tour 2001 Farum THE Rd 1
SWE Pro tour 2001 Skovde SWE Rd 1
SWE Pro tour 2000 Farum THE Rd 1 Rd 1
SWE Pro tour 2000 Umeå SWE Rd 1
SWE Pro Tour Grand Finals 2017 Astana KAZ Quarter finals
SWE Pro Tour Grand Finals 2012 Hangzhou CHN Quarter finals
SWE World Championship 2019 Budapest HUN last 64 last 32 last 32
SWE World Championship 2018 Halmstad SWE 17th to 20th space
SWE World Championship 2017 Dusseldorf GER last 128 last 64 Quarter finals
SWE World Championship 2016 Kuala Lumpur MAS 21.-24. space
SWE World Championship 2015 Suzhou CHN last 16 last 32 last 32
SWE World Championship 2014 Tokyo JPN 26th
SWE World Championship 2013 Paris FRA last 32 last 64
SWE World Championship 2012 Dortmund GER 20th
SWE World Championship 2011 Rotterdam NED last 64 last 64 last 64
SWE World Championship 2010 Moscow RUS 25th
SWE World Championship 2009 Yokohama JPN last 64 last 64
SWE World Championship 2008 Guangzhou CHN 22nd
SWE World Championship 2007 Zagreb HRV last 128 last 32 last 64
SWE World Championship 2006 Bremen GER 25th
SWE World Championship 2005 Shanghai CHN last 128 last 64 last 128
SWE World cup 2018 Cheng you CHN last 16
SWE World cup 2017 Markham CAN last 16
SWE World cup 2012 Huangshi CHN 13-16 space

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Player profile. ittf.com, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
  3. ↑ a b magazine tischtennis , 2018/3 page 6
  4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2012/3 page 4
  5. ↑ Change of club Ängby to Saarlouis-Fraulautern (accessed on August 19, 2012) ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Change of club Saarlouis-Fraulautern to Spain (accessed on August 19, 2012) ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ a b The Matilda Ekholm case? Samsonov and Sharara speak out for the Facebook campaign. tischtennis.de, June 12, 2012, accessed on January 20, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Ekholm Matilda. tabletennisworldranking.com, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Gerell par. Tabletennisworldranking.com, accessed on 20 January 2019 .
  10. ↑ Persson Jorgen. tabletennisworldranking.com, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  11. ↑ SOK confirms: Ekholm's Olympic dream is finally coming true! mytischtennis.de, May 2, 2016, accessed on January 20, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Review Day Two: Timo Boll and Bernadette Szocs claim titles on emotional final day in Montreux. ittf.com, February 4, 2018, accessed March 21, 2020 .
  13. ↑ ttc berlin eastside German champion for the fifth time. tischtennis.de, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Magazine table tennis , 2020/5 Page 20
  15. ↑ Matilda Ekholm Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed June 25, 2014)
  16. ↑ Matches. ittf.com, accessed January 20, 2019 .

Web links

literature

  • sue: Two titles for parting , table tennis magazine , 2020/5, pages 22–23
personal data
SURNAME Ekholm, Matilda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Linkoping