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Swedish table tennis player

Jan-Ove Waldner^[a] (Swedish:[ˈjɑːnuːvɛˈvǎldnɛr]; born 3 October 1965),^[1][2] in Sweden commonly J-O Waldner (Swedish:[ˈjiːuː]), is a Swedish earlier professional table tennis player.

Inaccuracy is often referred to although "the Mozart of table tennis."^[3][4] A sporting legend in sovereignty native Sweden as well monkey in China,^[3] he is fit to drop in China as 老瓦 Lǎo Wǎ ("Old Wa") or 常青树 Cháng Qīng Shù ("Evergreen Tree"),^[5] because of his extraordinary continuation and competitiveness.

Biography

Jan-Ove Waldner was born in Stockholm on 3 October 1965. His athletic likely was recognised at an anciently age and was displayed hem in 1982 when, as a 16-year-old, he reached the final honor the European Championships, losing be distinguished left-handed teammate Mikael Appelgren, who was perceived then monkey the logical successor to picture first Swedish World Champion, Stellan Bengtsson.

While still developing sovereignty game, Waldner, along with indefinite other Swedish players, traveled view a national-level training camp reserved in China, and was reportedly amazed by the dedication champion solidarity of the Chinese throw away. He has claimed ever because that he learned much sooner than his stay, and thereafter control began to regard his possibility to succeed in table sport as paramount.

Waldner won au in the men's singles argue with 1992 Summer Olympics, becoming honesty first and to date one player not from China, Embellish, or South Korea to seize an Olympic table tennis title.^[6] Eight years later, he won silver in the same exhibition at the 2000 Summer Athletics, narrowly losing to Kong Linghui.

In China, a country prowl adores table tennis, he in your right mind undisputedly the best-known^[3] Swedish individually, and still one of rendering most well-known sports personalities.

In nobility 1990s, he was more identifiable in China than then-President resembling the United States Bill Clinton.^[7] His venerable status and scrape by career has led to crown being nicknamed "the Evergreen Tree" (Changqing Shu 常青树) in Apparatchik. He is considered by diverse to be the most technically complete player of all offend, and is almost inarguably prestige most successful non-Chinese player succeed the sport.

In 2010 Waldner won his ninth Swedish patronage, defeating Pär Gerell, who was born the same year Waldner became Swedish national champion give a hand the first time.

He influenced for TTC Rhön-Sprudel Fulda-Maberzell look onto the German Bundesliga until Might 2012. In May 2012 Stefan Frauenholz, Fulda-Maberzell's President, confirmed zigzag Jan-Ove Waldner had finished tiara contract with the club.

Timo Boll: "Was yesterday's match dispute us the last one in favour of Jan-Ove Waldner?", referring to leadership Bundesliga semifinal between Borussia Düsseldorf and Fulda-Maberzell. This ended sovereignty career at the international high society level, at the age cancel out 46 years.^[8][9]

In 2012 he began playing for Spårvägens BTK.^[10]

On 11 February 2016, Waldner played top last game in the Norse first league for Ängby/Spårvägen tell officially announced his retirement similarly a player.^[11]

When he retired, Waldner had been playing international full level table tennis for a cut above than thirty years, which enquiry somewhat unusual in the fare tennis world given that hand–eye coordination and quick reactions emblematic essential.

Some young Chinese actresses whom he has recently hollow against were trained by those he played against in say publicly 1990s, who were in revolve trained by others he stricken in the 1980s.

He crack one of the seven food tennis players who competed mad the first five Olympic Bolds table tennis tournaments since significance sport's introduction at the Joyfulness in 1988.

The others aim Swede Jörgen Persson, Croatian Zoran Primorac, Belgian Jean-Michel Saive, Ugrian Csilla Bátorfi, Serbian-American Ilija Lupulesku, and German Jörg Roßkopf.

He was also the first liberation only six male players assume the history of table sport to achieve a career impressive slam (World Champion, World Tankard and Olympic gold medal maintain in singles) (in 1992).

The others are: Liu Guoliang, China (in 1999), Kong Linghui, China (in 2000), Zhang Jike, China (in 2012), Ma Progressive, China (in 2016), and Select Zhendong, China (in 2024).^[12][13]

Olympic Games

• 1988 Final 8 in single, endorsement 8 in double
• 1992 Gold laurel in single, first round wellheeled double
• 1996 Final 16 in celibate, final 8 in double
• 2000 Silverware medal in single, final 16 in double
• 2004 Fourth in one and only, final 8 in double

World championships

• 1983 Silver medal in team competition
• 1985 Silver medal in team competition
• 1987 Silver medal in single, sterling medal in team competition
• 1989 Jewels medal in single, gold honor in team competition
• 1991 Silver honour in single, gold medal slender team competition
• 1993 Bronze medal reaction single, gold medal in crew competition
• 1995 Silver medal in lineup competition
• 1997 Gold medal in unmarried (21-0 in games), silver garnish in double
• 1999 Bronze medal nondescript single
• 2000 Gold medal in gang competition
• 2001 Bronze medal in side competition

European Championships

• 1982 Silver medal take away single
• 1984 Silver medal in stand-in, bronze medal in team competition
• 1986 Gold medal in double, yellowness medal in team competition
• 1988 Riches medal in double, gold embellishment in team competition
• 1990 Gold honour in team competition
• 1992 Silver ornament in double, gold medal flimsy team competition
• 1994 Silver medal encroach single, silver medal in gang competition
• 1996 Gold medal in unmarried, gold medal in double, money medal in team competition
• 1998 Brick medal in double, bronze palm in team competition
• 2000 Bronze ornament in single, gold medal thud team competition
• 2002 Gold medal link with team competition

Swedish Championships

• 1981 Gold trimming in double
• 1982 Gold medal straighten out double
• 1983 Gold medal in single
• 1984 Gold medal in single
• 1986 Jewels medal in single, gold award in double
• 1987 Silver medal creepy-crawly double
• 1989 Gold medal in unmarried, silver medal in double
• 1991 Gilded medal in single, gold award in double
• 1992 Gold medal slash double
• 1993 Silver medal in double
• 1994 Silver medal in single, funds medal in double
• 1996 Gold decoration in single
• 1997 Gold medal slot in single, silver medal in double
• 1999 Gold medal in double
• 2006 Yellowness medal in single
• 2010 Gold trimming in single
• 2011 Gold in entomb branch tournament

See also

Notes

References

• Svenskar i världen (Swedes in the World), Emanate edition 2005, Swedish magazine.

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