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Apr 22, 1966 Halmstad, Halland County, Sweden 58 years old
Swedish table tennis player
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About Jörgen Persson
- Jörgen Persson (born 22 April 1966, in Halmstad, Sweden) is a Swedish table tennis player.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
