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Truls Möregårdh

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Swedish table tennis player

Truls Möregårdh
Möregårdh at the2018 Youth Olympics
Personal information
Born (2002-02-16)16 February 2002 (age 23)
Lessebo, Sweden[3]
Sport
SportTable tennis
Playing styleRight-handed,Shakehand grip
Equipment(s)Stiga Cybershape Carbon CWT Truls Edition, Stiga DNA Platinum XH (FH and BH)
Highest ranking3 (24 October 2022)[1]
Current ranking5 (26 August 2025)[2]

Truls Carl Eric Möregårdh (Swedish pronunciation:[ˈtrɵ̌lsˈmœ̂ːrɛˌɡoːɖ]; born 16 February 2002)[4] is a Swedish professionaltable tennis player. He took silver in the men's singles event at the2024 Summer Olympics, as well as at the2021 World Table Tennis Championships. In 2018, he took bronze with the Swedish team at theWorld Team Table Tennis Championships. In 2025, Möregårdh became the first European to win a WTT Grand Smash singles title.[5]

Playing style and equipment

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Möregårdh is right-handed and uses theEuropean shakehand style to hold his racket. He has drawn comparisons to the Swedish greatJan-Ove Waldner for his extensive use of backhand blocking and backhand punching. He also regularly employs a number of unconventional techniques, such as the chop block, which contribute to his creative playing style.[6][7]

Möregårdh is notable for being one of the first elite players to use atable tennis racket with theStiga Cybershape blade, which has a hexagonal shape as opposed to the more common oval shape. As a Stiga-sponsored athlete, he uses the Stiga Cybershape Carbon CWT Truls Edition blade and the Stiga Helix Platinum XH rubber on both sides.[6]

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 the2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games inBuenos Aires, where he was able to reach the quarter-finals in an individual competition. He reached the game for the bronze medal in the mixed competition, where they were subject to the representation of Taiwan,Su Pei-ling andLin Yun-ju. While Cacciamani won his singles against Su, Möregårdh and Cacciamani 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 the2018 World Cup and the2019 European Table Tennis Championships. In 2019 he became Swedish champion after beatingKristian Karlsson in the final. In the same year he moved from Swedish club Eslövs AI BTK to the Japanese club TT Saitama.[8] In 2021 he became Swedish champion again when he defeatedAnton Källberg in the final. The same year he won the silver in the2021 World Championships, losing the final againstFan Zhendong.

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

At the2024 Summer Olympics, Möregårdh won the silver medal, defeating the top-rankedWang Chuqin in the round of 32 of theMen's singles but ultimately losing the final toFan Zhendong.[9][10] Together withAnton Källberg andKristian Karlsson, Möregårdh went on to win his second Olympic silver medal in theteam event following a defeat against the Chinese team in the final.[11][12]

Overview of titles and successes

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Singles

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  • Europe Top-16 runner-up (2022)[13]
  • Two-time youth world championship runner-up (2017, 2019)
  • European Youth Champion (2019), Silver Medalist (2018)
  • Two-time European championship runner-up (2016, 2017)
  • Winner of the youth TOP 10 (2016)
  • Swedish Champion (2019, 2021)
  • Olympics Silver Medalist (2024)
  • World Championship Silver Medalist (2021), Bronze Medalist (2025)
  • WTT Europe Smash Gold Medalist (2025)
  • WTT Champions Montpellier Gold Medalist (2025)

Doubles

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  • European Schoolchildren (2017)
  • Schoolchildren European Championship runner-up (2016), Youth European Championship runner-up (2019)

Mixed doubles

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

Team

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  • 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)
  • Silver at the Paris Olympics (2024)

Personal life

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When Möregårdh was 12 years old, his entire family relocated toEslöv so that he would have better conditions to pursue his table tennis goals.[14] Möregårdh has a brother named Malte Möregårdh, who coaches him.[15]

References

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  1. ^"ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking Men's Singles 2022 Week #43".ITTF. 24 October 2022. Retrieved24 October 2022.
  2. ^"Week #35 - August 26th".results.ittf.link. Retrieved26 August 2025.
  3. ^"Truls Möregårdh: Sweden's rising table tennis star living out a 'fairytale'".olympics.com. 22 May 2023. Retrieved25 February 2024.
  4. ^Truls MOREGARD.World Table Tennis. Retrieved 22 May 2023.
  5. ^Daish, Simon."Moregard Magic In Malmö As Hometown Hero Claims Europe Smash Title".World Table Tennis. Retrieved28 August 2025.
  6. ^ab"Truls Moregard equipment".pingsunday.com. Retrieved23 August 2024.
  7. ^"Truls Moregard Equipment and Profile".tabletennisteacher.com. 26 August 2022. Retrieved23 August 2024.
  8. ^"Bordtennislöftet Truls lyft – klar för Japans högstaliga".Aftonbladet. 19 June 2019. Retrieved29 November 2021.
  9. ^"Paris 2024, Day 5: Truls MOREGARD eliminated World No.1 WANG Chuqin".ETTU.org. 31 July 2024.
  10. ^"Truls Möregårdh stred tappert men förlorade OS-finalen: "Betyder galet mycket"".Sveriges Television (in Swedish). 4 August 2024. Retrieved4 August 2024.
  11. ^"China Beats Sweden to Clinch Gold in Paris".ETTU.org. 9 August 2024.
  12. ^"Truls Möregårdh om dubbla silvren:Det ska inte gå".Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 9 August 2024. Retrieved10 August 2024.
  13. ^"Swedish Prodigy Truls Moregardh reaches World Rank #14".TTCrunch.com. TTCrunch. March 2022.
  14. ^"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. Retrieved2 August 2024.
  15. ^Grefve, Daniel (31 July 2024)."Truls Möregårdhs bror och tränare Malte efter skrällen: "Hans självförtroende har varit väldigt, väldigt lågt"".Sveriges Television (in Swedish). Retrieved1 August 2024.

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