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| Full name | Erik Gunnar Lindh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 May 1964 Kungälv, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing style | Shake hands grip | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Erik Lindh (born 24 May 1964 in Kungälv) is a former international Swedish table tennis player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics and in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
In the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul he finished in third place and won the bronze medal.[1]
He was a member of the winning Swedish teams in the 1989, 1991 and 1993 World Table Tennis Team Championships.
He also won an English Open title.
Lindh was a pioneer of the style of looping the ball very early - often straight after the bounce.
See also
- List of table tennis players
- List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-17. Retrieved 2011-04-22.
External links
- "Erik Lindh vs. Mattew Syed - Sear's International Challenge - Video"
- picture
- profile
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Erik Lindh". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.