Bo Persson (table tennis)


Bo Persson is a male former international table tennis player for Sweden.

Table tennis career

He won a bronze medal at the 1967 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup, a feat which he repeated eight years later at the 1975 World Table Tennis Championships.
In between the two bronze medals he recorded his greatest achievement by winning a gold medal in the Swaythling Cup at the 1973 World Table Tennis Championships as part of the Sweden team that contained Anders Johansson, Kjell Johansson, Stellan Bengtsson and Ingemar Wikström.
He also won four gold medals in the team event at the European Table Tennis Championships and played wearing spectacles. He later became a coach.