Swedish national table tennis team

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The Swedish national table tennis team for men is the selection team of the Swedish Table Tennis Federation , which plays for the association in international competitions. With five World Cup and 14 European Championship titles, the team is one of the most successful table tennis teams in the world.

successes

World championships

European championships

European Games

history

At the first world championships before the Second World War , Sweden was only represented three times, but was able to win the silver medal in 1930 . The first post-war medal was bronze at the first European championship in 1958 . In the 1960s, Swedish dominance in Europe set in - among other things, the team won six European Championship titles in a row from 1964 to 1974 - which also made itself felt at world championships. In 1973 Sweden won its first world title, the most successful phase began in the early 80s, when the Swedish team won silver three times in a row at the world championships from 1983 to 1987 and then gold three times in a row from 1989 to 1993 . Players like Jan-Ove Waldner and Jörgen Persson , who could also become world champions in singles, were among the strongest players in the world at that time. In 2000 , a surprising final victory over China brought the title again, in 2001 at least bronze, and in 2002 Sweden won the European Championship for the last time for the time being.

World rankings of the four best Swedish table tennis players since 2001

In the years that followed, however, there were signs of declining performance, not least due to a lack of offspring. The 2003 EM bronze medal was not followed by another medal for eight years. In 2008, when Jan-Ove Waldner and Peter Karlsson ended their international careers, they and Jörgen Persson were still the best Swedish players in the world, despite an age of 38 to 42 . Jens Lundqvist and Pär Gerell were able to make their way into the top 50 repeatedly, but not establish themselves among the world's best. In 2011 she won the silver medal at the European Championships . From 2014, when the bronze medal was won, the youth situation gradually improved, with Kristian Karlsson and Mattias Karlsson , young players made it into the top 25 again in 2016/2017. At the 2017 European Championships , Sweden was one of the favorites, but surprisingly lost 3-2 to Slovenia in the quarter-finals. After victories over Hong Kong, Taiwan and England, among others, which had previously beaten vice world champion Japan, Sweden reached the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup , which was lost to China, and thus won the first World Cup medal since 2001.

Current occupation

Performing in current competitions

In previous competitions, Sweden won the bronze medal at the European Championships in 2014 , and in the last World Cup they reached the quarter-finals at the Olympics , the last sixteen. They failed twice because of the German team , once against the Portuguese . Sweden is the only national team that has beaten China in a World Cup this millennium . In addition, in 1989 the three-crown team brought the Chinese the biggest defeat in their history.

World Championship 2012

Venue round opponent Result*
Dortmund Group stage North Korea 1: 3
Dortmund Group stage Hong Kong 0: 3
Dortmund Group stage China 0: 3
Dortmund Group stage Slovenia 3: 2
Dortmund Group stage Greece 3-0
Dortmund Round of 16 Portugal 3-0
Dortmund Quarter finals Germany 0: 3

Olympic Games 2012

Venue round opponent Result*
London Round of 16 Germany 1: 3

European Championship 2014

Venue round opponent Result*
Lisbon Group stage Poland 3-0
Lisbon Group stage Belarus 1: 3
Lisbon Group stage Italy 3-0
Lisbon Quarter finals Spain 3: 1
Lisbon Semifinals Portugal 1: 3
  • Results from a Swedish perspective

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rp-online.de: Table tennis world championship: Sweden's men overthrow the Chinese from the throne. February 26, 2000, accessed May 22, 2017 .