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A year of great Swedish sporting achievements.
Then Truls Möregårdh knows who he thinks deserves the gold medal, even if he directs some criticism at the Sports Gala.
– It is very special that you compare different sports with each other, he says to Sportbibeln.
Armand “Mondo” Duplantis has set two world records and won WC gold. Daniel Ståhl made a great throw and won WC gold in the discus. The Swedish table tennis national team took Sweden’s first gold in the team European Championships in 21 years. It is difficult to predict who or who will win the 2023 achievement gold.
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Truls Möregårdh, 22, was part of the table tennis national team that won the gold. In fact, he was crucial in the final against Germany, having won the last game against the big man Timo Ball22.
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After his performances, an invitation to the Sports Gala in Möregårdh and the rest of the table tennis national team’s mailboxes will be dimmed this winter. The 22-year-old is looking forward to that.
– It would have been fun to meet and talk to some fantastic athletes from Sweden, he says to Sportbibeln.
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Möregårdh’s feat gold winner
Who Möregårdh thinks should win the achievement gold is a bit difficult for him to answer, as he does not completely buy the conditions of the award.
– With the Sports Gala, it is very special that you compare different sports with each other and so on. So I actually don’t know. We all deserve our own achievement gold in our different ways.
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Do you think that you in the national table tennis team deserved the gold medal?
– I think we have deserved it a few times now in recent years, with both WC silver for me, WC gold in doubles, and now EC gold. But it is clear that we have absolutely fantastic athletes in Sweden, which we should be very happy about. We must try to tear down the Chinese wall as the others (the national table tennis team with Jan-Ove Waldner, Mikael Appelgren, Jörgen Persson, Erik Lindh and Peter Karlsson who won the feat gold in 1989) did. Then it would probably be clear, says Möregårdh.
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