Åke Rakell
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| Nationality |  Sweden | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 March 1935 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 29 December 2012 (aged 77) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Åke Gunnar Rakell (March 10, 1935 – November 29, 2012) was a Swedish international table tennis player.[1]
Table tennis career
[edit]He won a bronze medal in doubles with Hans Alsér at the a 1959 World Table Tennis Championships.[2][3][4]
Personal life
[edit]His grandson is Rickard Rakell, an ice hockey player in the National Hockey League. [5] Rakell died on November 29, 2012, at the age of 77.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Men's doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
- ^ "TTStat.se Spelarprofil Åke Rakell". TTStat.se.
- ^ "Rickard Rakell is one Duck who knows how to paddle". LA Times. 28 February 2016.
- ^ "Sök gravsatt på SvenskaGravar.se". www.svenskagravar.se. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
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