Jörgen Persson
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Jörgen Persson (born 22 April 1966) is a Swedish former table tennis player.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Career
In two memorable World Table Tennis Championships finals he faced fellow Swede Jan-Ove Waldner in 1989 and 1991, losing the former and winning the latter.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He also won four World Championship titles in Team.
Persson represented Sweden in every Olympic Games from when table tennis was introduced into the Olympic program in 1988 until 2012. After the 2012 Olympics he officially retired.<ref name="olympics">Template:Cite Sports-Reference</ref> Along with Croatian Zoran Primorac and Belgian Jean-Michel Saive, he was the first table tennis player to have competed at seven Olympic Games. His game is based on a powerful backhand stroke and a regular forehand.
His best Olympic result is a fourth place at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics. At the latter, he was the best non-Chinese in the entire event.
Post-retirement
Persson is the national table tennis team coach for Sweden, which was the winning team at the 2023 European Championships in Malmö .<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It was the first time in a whole 21 years that Sweden stood as winners in a team event in table tennis. The players in the Swedish team consisted of Truls Möregårdh, Mattias Falck, Anton Källberg, Kristian Karlsson, and Jon Persson.
On 20 September 2023, Persson announced that he would make a comeback as a player in Kosta SK in the coming season.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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- 1966 births
- Living people
- Swedish male table tennis players
- Olympic table tennis players for Sweden
- Table tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Halmstad
- World Table Tennis Championships medalists
- 20th-century Swedish sportsmen