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.[3] 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.[1] 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.
Persson is the national table tennis team coach for Sweden, which was the winning team at the 2023 European Championships in Malmö .[4] It was the first time in a whole 21 years that Sweden stood as winners in a team event in table tennis. The players in the Swedish team consisted of
Truls Möregårdh,
Mattias Falck,
Anton Källberg,
Kristian Karlsson, and Jon Persson.
On September 20, 2023, Persson announced that he would make a comeback as a player in Kosta SK in the coming season. [5]
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.[3] 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.[1] 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.
Persson is the national table tennis team coach for Sweden, which was the winning team at the 2023 European Championships in Malmö .[4] It was the first time in a whole 21 years that Sweden stood as winners in a team event in table tennis. The players in the Swedish team consisted of
Truls Möregårdh,
Mattias Falck,
Anton Källberg,
Kristian Karlsson, and Jon Persson.
On September 20, 2023, Persson announced that he would make a comeback as a player in Kosta SK in the coming season. [5]