Truls Möregårdh

Truls Carl Eric Möregårdh (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈtrɵ̌ls ˈmœ̂ːrɛˌɡoːɖ]; born 16 February 2002, also spelled Truls Moregard by World Table Tennis[3]) is a Swedish professional 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.

Truls Möregårdh
Small final in the mixed tournament of the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Personal information
NationalitySwedish
Born (2002-02-16) 16 February 2002
Hovmantorp, Sweden
Table tennis career
Playing styleShakehands grip
Highest ranking3 (24 October 2022)[1]
Current ranking13 ( 22 August 2023)[2]
Medal record
Representing  Sweden
World Championships
Silver medal – second place2021 HoustonSingles
Bronze medal – third place2018 HalmstadTeam
European Games
Silver medal – second place2023 Kraków–MałopolskaTeam
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place2019 NantesTeam
Bronze medal – third place2021 Cluj-NapocaTeam
Gold medal – first place2023 MalmöTeam
World Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place2017 Riva Del GardaSingles
Silver medal – second place2019 KoratSingles
Swedish Championship
Gold medal – first place2019 EskilstunaSingles
Gold medal – first place2021 KöpingSingles
Bronze medal – third place2020 SöderhamnSingles

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 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.[4] 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) [5]
  • 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
  • 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

Truls Möregårdh has a brother named Malte Möregårdh.[6]

References
  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.
  3. Truls MOREGARD. World Table Tennis. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  4. "Bordtennislöftet Truls lyft – klar för Japans högstaliga". Aftonbladet. 19 June 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  5. "Swedish Prodigy Truls Moregardh reaches World Rank #14". TTCrunch.com. TTCrunch.
  6. "Möregardh, Truls". Retrieved 26 January 2020.
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