Ulf Carlsson

Ulf "Tickan" Carlsson (born April 2, 1961 in Falkenberg ) is a Swedish table tennis player . In the 1980s he was among the world's best. He is world champion in doubles.

World championships

From 1979 to 1989 Carlsson took part in all six world championships . Here he was in Gothenburg in 1985 together with Mikael Appelgren world champion in doubles by winning the final against Orlowski / Pansky , and vice world champion with the Swedish team. At the 1987 World Cup he came in second with the team.

European championships

Between 1980 and 1988 Carlsson was nominated for all five European championships . In 1980 he won the final with the Swedish team against Germany and was thus team European champion. He repeated this success at the EM 1986, where he reached 2nd place in doubles with Mikael Appelgren .

Other international successes

His best placings at the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 were 4th place (1986) and 6th place (1987). In 1986 he was first with Sweden in the Europa League .

Germany

Carlsson first played for the Swedish club Falkenbergs BTK . In 1980 he moved to the German Bundesliga club TTC Simex Jülich , with whom he won the European Champion Clubs' Cup in 1984 . In 1985 he returned to Sweden to the BTK Falkenberg, later he played for the clubs BTK Lyckeby and BTK Halmstad.

Trainer

From 1992 Ulf Carlsson coached the Swedish women's national team. In 1996 he succeeded Sören Ahlen and became the head coach of the Swedish men's national team.

Private

Ulf Carlsson married (after 1999) the Swedish table tennis player Åsa Svensson .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
SWE	European Championship	1988	Paris	FRA	Quarter finals		Semifinals
SWE	European Championship	1986	Prague	TCH	Semifinals	silver		1
SWE	European Championship	1984	Moscow	URS	last 16	Semifinals
SWE	European Championship	1982	Budapest	HUN	last 16	Quarter finals
SWE	European Championship	1980	Bern	SUI				1
SWE	EURO TOP12	1989	Charleroi	BEL	12
SWE	EURO TOP12	1987	Basel	SUI	6th
SWE	EURO TOP12	1986	Sodertalje	SWE	4th
SWE	EURO TOP12	1984	Bratislava	TCH	10
SWE	EURO TOP12	1982	Nantes	FRA	12
SWE	EURO TOP12	1981	Miskolc	HUN	10
SWE	Nordic championships	1986	Helsinki	FIN	silver	silver		1
SWE	Nordic championships	1981	Horning	THE	gold
SWE	Nordic championships	1979	Mountains	NOR	gold	gold		1
SWE	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	last 32	last 16	last 64
SWE	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	last 32	Scratched	Scratched	2
SWE	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 32	gold	last 64	2
SWE	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	last 16	last 16	last 64
SWE	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	last 32	Quarter finals	no participants	11
SWE	World Championship	1979	Pyongyang	PRK	last 64	Scratched	last 64	8th

swell

• Christian Heyerdahl: Still aiming high: Ulf Carlsson , DTS magazine , 1986/10 pp. 42–44

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1980/13 p. 5
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1985/7 p. 23
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/10 p. 28
5. ↑ ITTF statistics (accessed September 4, 2011)