Profile details
- Born
- 3 Oct 1965
- Birthplace
- Stockholm
- Country
- Sweden
- Height
- 180 cm
- Sport
- Table Tennis
- Discipline
- Racquet
- Category
- Men
- Status
- Active
District, weight, playing style, coach, academy, national ranking and international ranking are not yet recorded for this athlete.
Honours & Awards
- ▸ETTU Hall of Fame
- ▸ITTF Hall of Fame
- ▸International Swede of the Year
Competition Appearances
5 recorded appearances, most significant first.
- ·2004 Summer Olympics
- ·2000 Summer Olympics – men's singles
- ·1996 Summer Olympics
- ·1992 Summer Olympics – men's singles
- ·1988 Summer Olympics
Career Timeline
- 1988Competed at 1988 Summer Olympics
- 1992Competed at table tennis at the 1992 Summer Olympics – men's singles
- 1996Competed at 1996 Summer Olympics
- 2000Competed at table tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics – men's singles
- 2004Competed at 2004 Summer Olympics
Statistics
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About
Jan-Ove Waldner (Swedish: [ˈjɑːn uːvɛ ˈvǎldnɛr]; born 3 October 1965), in Sweden commonly J-O Waldner or simply mononymously as J-O (Swedish: [ˈjîː.(j)uː]), is a Swedish former professional table tennis player. He is often referred to as "the Mozart of table tennis." A sporting legend in his native Sweden as well as in China, he is known in China as 老瓦 Lǎo Wǎ 'Old Wa' or 常青树 Cháng Qīng Shù 'Evergreen Tree', because of his extraordinary longevity and competitiveness.
Biography adapted from Jan-Ove Waldner on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.