Truls Möregårdh

Truls Möregårdh
Truls Möregårdh
	Small final in the mixed tournament of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Personal information
Nationality	Swedish
Born	16 February 2002 (age 22); Hovmantorp, Sweden
Playing style	Shakehands grip
Highest ranking	3 (24 October 2022)
Current ranking	3 (24 October 2022)
Medal record
Representing Sweden
World Championships
European Championships
World Junior Championships
Swedish Championship

Truls Carl Eric Möregårdh (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈtrɵ̌ls ˈmœ̂ːrɛˌɡoːɖ]; born 16 February 2002) is a Swedish table tennis player. He won bronze with the Swedish team at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in 2018, as well as at the 2019 European Table Tennis Championships. In 2021, he won silver at the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships. He is right-handed and uses the European shakehand style to hold his racquet.

Career

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.

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 Lin 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 Eslövs to the Japanese club TT Saitama.^[3] In 2021 he became Swedish champion again when he defeated Anton Källberg in the final.

Overview of titles and successes

Singles

Europe Top-16 runner-up (2022) ^[4]
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)

Doubles

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

Mixed doubles

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

Team

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

Personal life

Truls Möregårdh has a brother named Malte Möregårdh.^[5]

References

^ "ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking Men's Singles 2022 Week #43". ITTF. 24 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
^ "ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking". ITTF. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
^ "Bordtennislöftet Truls lyft – klar för Japans högstaliga". Aftonbladet. 19 June 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
^ "Swedish Prodigy Truls Moregardh reaches World Rank #14". TTCrunch.com. TTCrunch.
^ "Möregardh, Truls". Retrieved 26 January 2020.

External links

This article has no link in Wikidata
Truls Möregårdh at Table Tennis Media

[1] "ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking Men's Singles 2022 Week #43". ITTF. 24 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.

[2] "ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking". ITTF. Retrieved 24 October 2022.

[r1-3] "Bordtennislöftet Truls lyft – klar för Japans högstaliga". Aftonbladet. 19 June 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2021.

[4] "Swedish Prodigy Truls Moregardh reaches World Rank #14". TTCrunch.com. TTCrunch.

[:0-5] "Möregardh, Truls". Retrieved 26 January 2020.

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