Truls Möregårdh

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Truls Möregårdh (also Truls Möregardh or Truls Moregardh ; born February 16, 2002 in Växjö ) is a Swedish table tennis player . He won bronze with the team at the World Championships in 2018 , as well as at the European Championships in 2019. He is right-handed and uses the European shakehand style to hold his bat .

Truls Möregårdh Table tennis player
Other spellings: Truls Möregardh / Truls Moregardh
Nation: SwedenSweden Sweden
Date of birth: February 16, 2002
Place of birth: Vaxjo
Size: 177 cm
Weight: 72 kg
Playing hand: right
How to play: Shakehand (attack)
Current world rankings : 90 Template: Infobox table tennis player / maintenance / local value
Best world ranking : 81 (September 2019)

successes

The Swede was considered a great talent from an early age. He achieved his first international successes in 2016. Overall, he is two-time European student champion and one European youth champion.

In 2016, 2017 and 2018 he finished second. He also won the youth TOP 10 in 2016. In 2017 and 2018 he was vice world champion and was allowed to take part in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires , where he reached the quarter-finals in an individual competition.

With the team he reached 4th place. From 2018 he took part in adult tournaments more and more often, notable successes were winning the bronze medal at the 2018 World Cup, as well as the 2019 European Championship. In 2019 he became Swedish champion after a final victory over Kristian Karlsson . In the same year he moved from Eslövs to the Japanese club TT Sataima.

Overview of titles and successes

singles

  • Two-time youth vice world champion (2017, 2019)
  • Youth European Champion (2019), Silver (2018)
  • Two-time vice European champion (2016, 2017)
  • Winner of the Youth TOP 10 (2016)

Double

  • European Schoolchildren (2017)
  • Vice European student champion (2016), European vice youth champion (2019)

Mixed

  • Bronze at the European Youth Championships (2019)

team

  • 3rd place at the World Championship (2018)
  • 3rd place at the European Championship (2019)
  • Vice European Schoolchildren (2016)

Private

Truls Möregårdh has a brother named Malte Möregårdh.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2019/3 page 6
  2. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2019/8 page 7
  3. ↑ Möregardh, Truls. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Möregårdh, Truls
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Möregardh, Truls; Moregardh, Truls
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 2002
PLACE OF BIRTH Vaxjo