Ulf Bengtsson (26 January 1960 – 17 March 2019) was a Swedish
table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player and coach.
From 1983 to 1988 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events at the
European Championships, two silver medals with the Swedish team in the
World Table Tennis Championships
The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include m ...
, he also achieved the third place at the
Table Tennis World Cup
The Table Tennis World Cup has been held annually since 1980. There had been only men's singles until the inauguration of women's singles in 1996 and team competitions in 1990. The team competitions, the World Team Cup, were canceled until the rela ...
in 1984.
See also
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List of table tennis players
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers is ...
References
External links
Ulf Bengtsson among famous Swedish table tennis players and coaches
1960 births
2019 deaths
Swedish male table tennis players
Swedish table tennis coaches
People from Höganäs Municipality
Sportspeople from Skåne County
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