Ernst Bolldén
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Native name | Ernst Olov Bolldén | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Njutånger, Sweden | 28 September 1966||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 30 April 2012 Sweden | (aged 45)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ernst Olov Bolldén (28 September 1966 – 30 April 2012) was a Swedish wheelchair table tennis player.[1] He represented Sweden at every Summer Paralympics from 1988 to 2004 and won medals for para table tennis. He was on the gold-winning Swedish team at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics and won a bronze in men's singles at that same Games.[2] He won another bronze in the men's team event at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics.
Bolldén was born in Njutånger, Sweden. He had a twin brother and two older brothers.[3] Bolldén became paralysed from the waist and down in a schoolyard accident in Iggesund in 1979.[4]
In July 2011, he was diagnosed with invasive bladder cancer. Bolldén died on 30 April 2012.[4] He was 45.
Career records[]
Olympic Games[]
- 1996: Olympic gold in team wheelchair
- 1996: OS bronze in single wheelchair
- 2000: OS bronze in team wheelchair
World Championship[]
- 1986: World Cup silver in single wheelchair
- 1986: World Cup silver in team wheelchair
- 1990: World Cup Gold in single wheelchair
- 1990: World Cup Bronze in Team Wheelchair
- 1998: World Cup silver in team wheelchair
- 1998: World Cup bronze in single wheelchair
- 2002: WM-silver in team wheelchair
- 2002: WM silver in single wheelchair
- 2006: WM gold in single wheelchair
European Championships[]
- 1991: Euro gold in single wheelchair
- 1995: Euro gold in single wheelchair
- 1995: EM-silver in layers of wheelchair
- 1997: Euro gold in single wheelchair
- 1999: EM bronze in open wheelchair class
- 2003: EM bronze in single wheelchair
- 2003: EM bronze in team wheelchair
- 2009: EM bronze in single wheelchair
- 2009: EM-silver in layers of wheelchair
Other credits[]
- Nominated for the award for the year's athletes with disabilities to the Swedish Athletics 2007.[5]
- 2006: Elected best player or World Championships in wheelchair men category.
References[]
- ^ "Ernst Bolldén död". Aftonbladet. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ Para Table Tennis profile
- ^ Sveriges Befolkning 1970 (Swedish Census 1970).
- ^ a b http://svt.se/2.126217/1.2789604/ernst_bollden_ar_dod[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Winner for this year".
External links[]
Categories:
- 1966 births
- 2012 deaths
- Swedish male table tennis players
- Table tennis players at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic table tennis players of Sweden
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in table tennis
- Paralympic gold medalists for Sweden
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Sweden
- Deaths from cancer in Sweden
- Deaths from bladder cancer
- Twin people from Sweden
- Twin sportspeople