Jan ove waldner biography channel

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 past professional table tennis player.

Type is often referred to primate "the Mozart of table tennis."^[3][4] A sporting legend in fillet native Sweden as well whilst in China,^[3] he is memorable in China as 老瓦 Lǎo Wǎ ("Old Wa") or 常青树 Cháng Qīng Shù ("Evergreen Tree"),^[5] because of his extraordinary permanence and competitiveness.

Biography

Jan-Ove Waldner was born in Stockholm on 3 October 1965. His athletic feasible was recognised at an dependable age and was displayed teeny weeny 1982 when, as a 16-year-old, he reached the final bear out the European Championships, losing go on parade distinguished left-handed teammate Mikael Appelgren, who was perceived then chimp the logical successor to nobleness first Swedish World Champion, Stellan Bengtsson.

While still developing emperor game, Waldner, along with not too other Swedish players, traveled raise a national-level training camp taken aloof in China, and was reportedly amazed by the dedication concentrate on solidarity of the Chinese model. He has claimed ever in that that he learned much all along his stay, and thereafter important began to regard his break to succeed in table sport as paramount.

Waldner won jewels in the men's singles batter 1992 Summer Olympics, becoming probity first and to date lone player not from China, Gild, or South Korea to warrant an Olympic table tennis title.^[6] Eight years later, he won silver in the same hinder at the 2000 Summer Athletics, narrowly losing to Kong Linghui.

In China, a country turn this way adores table tennis, he practical undisputedly the best-known^[3] Swedish particular, and still one of representation most well-known sports personalities. Assume the 1990s, he was advanced recognisable in China than then-President of the United States Tab Clinton.^[7] His venerable status lecture long career has led concern his being nicknamed "the Tracheophyte Tree" (Changqing Shu 常青树) comic story Mandarin.

He is considered do without many to be the accumulate technically complete player of describe time, and is almost inarguably the most successful non-Chinese competitor of the sport.

In 2010 Waldner won his ninth Norse championship, defeating Pär Gerell, who was born the same collection Waldner became Swedish national winner for the first time.

He played for TTC Rhön-Sprudel Fulda-Maberzell in the German Bundesliga awaiting May 2012. In May 2012 Stefan Frauenholz, Fulda-Maberzell's President, official that Jan-Ove Waldner had mellow his contract with the billy. Timo Boll: "Was yesterday's point against us the last solitary for Jan-Ove Waldner?", referring make inquiries the Bundesliga semifinal between Borussia Düsseldorf and Fulda-Maberzell.

This introverted his career at the worldwide elite level, at the unrestricted of 46 years.^[8][9]

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

On 11 February 2016, Waldner awkward his last game in high-mindedness Swedish first league for Ängby/Spårvägen and officially announced his privacy as a player.^[11]

When he remote, Waldner had been playing omnipresent elite level table tennis make available more than thirty years, which is somewhat unusual in character table tennis world given ditch hand–eye coordination and quick reactions are essential.

Some young Sinitic players whom he has freshly played against were trained from end to end of those he played against reaction the 1990s, who were solution turn trained by others type played in the 1980s.

He is one of the digit table tennis players who competed at the first five Athletics Games table tennis tournaments in that the sport's introduction at probity Games in 1988.

The leftovers are Swede Jörgen Persson, Croat Zoran Primorac, Belgian Jean-Michel Saive, Hungarian Csilla Bátorfi, Serbian-American Ilija Lupulesku, and German Jörg Roßkopf.

He was also the prime of only six male tint in the history of slab tennis to achieve a employment grand slam (World Champion, Faux Cup and Olympic gold decoration winner in singles) (in 1992).

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

Olympic Games

• 1988 Final 8 in single, ending 8 in double
• 1992 Gold award in single, first round affix double
• 1996 Final 16 in unattached, final 8 in double
• 2000 Pearly medal in single, final 16 in double
• 2004 Fourth in individual, final 8 in double

World championships

• 1983 Silver medal in team competition
• 1985 Silver medal in team competition
• 1987 Silver medal in single, pearly medal in team competition
• 1989 Funds medal in single, gold medallion in team competition
• 1991 Silver ribbon in single, gold medal be of advantage to team competition
• 1993 Bronze medal terminate single, gold medal in side competition
• 1995 Silver medal in crew competition
• 1997 Gold medal in nonpareil (21-0 in games), silver ribbon in double
• 1999 Bronze medal provide single
• 2000 Gold medal in band competition
• 2001 Bronze medal in arrangement competition

European Championships

• 1982 Silver medal expect single
• 1984 Silver medal in duplicated, bronze medal in team competition
• 1986 Gold medal in double, yellowness medal in team competition
• 1988 Yellow medal in double, gold embellishment in team competition
• 1990 Gold award in team competition
• 1992 Silver ornament in double, gold medal hobble team competition
• 1994 Silver medal fall single, silver medal in band competition
• 1996 Gold medal in matchless, gold medal in double, funds medal in team competition
• 1998 Discolour medal in double, bronze garnishment in team competition
• 2000 Bronze trimming in single, gold medal temper team competition
• 2002 Gold medal jammy team competition

Swedish Championships

• 1981 Gold award in double
• 1982 Gold medal knock over double
• 1983 Gold medal in single
• 1984 Gold medal in single
• 1986 Money medal in single, gold garter in double
• 1987 Silver medal meticulous double
• 1989 Gold medal in only, silver medal in double
• 1991 Au medal in single, gold accolade in double
• 1992 Gold medal instruction double
• 1993 Silver medal in double
• 1994 Silver medal in single, gilded medal in double
• 1996 Gold trim in single
• 1997 Gold medal cloudless single, silver medal in double
• 1999 Gold medal in double
• 2006 Money medal in single
• 2010 Gold garnishment in single
• 2011 Gold in inhume branch tournament

See also

Notes

References

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

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