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Truls Möregårdh
Möregårdh at the 2018 Youth Olympics
Personal information
Born (2002-02-16) 16 February 2002 (age 22)
Lessebo, Sweden[1]
Table tennis career
Playing styleRight-handed, Shakehand grip
Highest ranking3 (24 October 2022)[2]
Current ranking10 (5 August 2024)[3]
Medal record
Men's table tennis
Representing  Sweden
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Singles
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Team
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2021 Houston Singles
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Halmstad Team
European Games
Silver medal – second place 2023 Kraków–Małopolska Team
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Malmö Team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Nantes Team
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Cluj-Napoca Team
Europe Top-16
Silver medal – second place 2022 Montreux Singles
Silver medal – second place 2024 Montreux Singles
World Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place 2017 Riva Del Garda Singles
Silver medal – second place 2019 Korat Singles
Swedish Championship
Gold medal – first place 2019 Eskilstuna Singles
Gold medal – first place 2021 Köping Singles
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Söderhamn Singles

Truls Carl Eric Möregårdh (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈtrɵ̌ls ˈmœ̂ːrɛˌɡoːɖ]; born 16 February 2002)[4] is a Swedish professional table tennis player. He won silver in the men's singles event at the 2024 Summer Olympics, as well as at the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships. In 2018, he won bronze with the Swedish team at the World Team Table Tennis Championships. He is right-handed and uses the European shakehand style to hold his racquet.

Career

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Möregårdh 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.

He finished second in 2016, 2017 and 2018. He also won the youth TOP 10 in 2016. In 2017 and 2018 he was junior vice world champion and was allowed to take part in the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, where he was able to reach the quarter-finals in an individual competition. With the Serbian Sabina Šurjan, he reached the game for the bronze medal in the mixed competition, where they were subject to the representation of Taiwan, Su Pei-ling and Lin Yun-ju. While Šurjan won her singles against Su, Möregårdh and Šurjan lost in doubles.

With the team he reached 4th place. From 2018 he took part in adult tournaments with increasing frequency, notable successes being winning the bronze medal at the 2018 World Cup and the 2019 European Table Tennis Championships. In 2019 he became Swedish champion after beating Kristian Karlsson in the final. In the same year he moved from Swedish club Eslövs AI BTK to the Japanese club TT Saitama.[5] In 2021 he became Swedish champion again when he defeated Anton Källberg in the final. The same year the won the silver in the 2021 World Championships, losing the final against Fan Zhendong.

As of 2023, he was playing for Lexuan Sports Group TTC in the China Table Tennis Super League.

At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Möregårdh won the silver medal, defeating the top-ranked Wang Chuqin in the round of 32 of the Men's singles but ultimately losing the final to Fan Zhendong.[6][7] Together with Anton Källberg and Kristian Karlsson, Möregårdh went on to win his second Olympic silver medal in the team event following a defeat against the Chinese team in the final.[8][9]

Overview of titles and successes

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Singles

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  • Europe Top-16 runner-up (2022) [10]
  • World Championship runner-up (2021)
  • Two-time youth vice world champion (2017, 2019)
  • European Youth Champion (2019), Silver (2018)
  • Two-time vice European champion (2016, 2017)
  • Winner of the youth TOP 10 (2016)
  • Swedish Champion (2019, 2021)
  • Olympics Silver Medalist (2024)

Doubles

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  • European Schoolchildren (2017)
  • Vice-Schoolchildren European Champion (2016), Vice-Youth European Champion (2019)

Mixed doubles

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  • Bronze at the European Youth Championships (2019)
  • 4th place at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games

Team

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  • Vice European Schoolchildren (2016)
  • 3rd place at the World Championships (2018)
  • 3rd place at the European Championships (2019)
  • 3rd place at the European Championships (2021)
  • Gold at the European Championships (2023)

Personal life

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When Truls was 12 years old, his entire family relocated to Eslöv so that he would have better conditions to pursue his table tennis goals.[11] Truls Möregårdh has a brother named Malte Möregårdh, who coaches him.[12]

References

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  1. ^ "Truls Möregårdh: Sweden's rising table tennis star living out a 'fairytale'". olympics.com. 22 May 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  2. ^ "ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking Men's Singles 2022 Week #43". ITTF. 24 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  3. ^ "ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking". ITTF. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  4. ^ Truls MOREGARD. World Table Tennis. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  5. ^ "Bordtennislöftet Truls lyft – klar för Japans högstaliga". Aftonbladet. 19 June 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Paris 2024, Day 5: Truls MOREGARD eliminated World No.1 WANG Chuqin". ETTU.org. 31 July 2024.
  7. ^ "Truls Möregårdh stred tappert men förlorade OS-finalen: "Betyder galet mycket"". Sveriges Television (in Swedish). 4 August 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  8. ^ "China Beats Sweden to Clinch Gold in Paris". ETTU.org. 9 August 2024.
  9. ^ "Truls Möregårdh om dubbla silvren: Det ska inte gå". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 9 August 2024. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
  10. ^ "Swedish Prodigy Truls Moregardh reaches World Rank #14". TTCrunch.com. TTCrunch. March 2022.
  11. ^ "Så blev Truls bäst – hela familjen flyttade när han var 12". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 2 August 2024. Archived from the original on 2 August 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  12. ^ Grefve, Daniel (31 July 2024). "Truls Möregårdhs bror och tränare Malte efter skrällen: "Hans självförtroende har varit väldigt, väldigt lågt"". Sveriges Television (in Swedish). Retrieved 1 August 2024.
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