Eliasson Wins His Third Consecutive Karlskrona Title
Date: 2003-07-08
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Sweden's charismatic Racketlon World #1 Magnus Eliasson showed that he is now fully recovered from his foot injury that has bothered him since British Open in April when he convincingly won the Karlskrona Racket Virtuoso tournament last week. In the final he beat easily local star Ola Carleke (who can take comfort from the fact that his runner-up result advanced him from position 7 to 5 on the Swedish Ranking). Full results from the tournament can be found on the Karlskrona Racketlon Homepage.

Former Racketlon Swedish champion Pär Carleke has organized the Racket Virtuoso tournament every year for over a decade thereby creating one of Sweden's (and the World's) most stable Racketlon strongholds in the small town of Karlskrona. This year's event attracted 44 players. Read Carleke's round-up below.
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Since the start 1991, BLT's Racketvirtuosen has only had four different winners (in the elite class), everyone won three or more times. The fourth name winning three times is Magnus Eliasson who had no problem winning this year.

Magnus lost tennis in the semifinal, 18-32, to tennis specialist Erik Friberg and squash in the final, 15-35 to squash specialist Ola Carleke. All the other sports was won quite easily and Magnus was the indisputable winner and showed that his form now is back after three racketlon competitions without any win.

In the class 1 Joachim Nilsson, Karlstad showed to be a perfect racketlete, playing with great margin and being a very fit runner. He had a real struggle against homeplayer Stig Palkaj in the semifinal, 103-98, and then won quite easily in the final against travelling companion Niclas Larsson, Göteborg.

The most exciting final was played in the veterans class. Göran Håkansson won against Kalevi Conrad 102-99 after winning the four last balls!

The other winners were Martin Tidell, amateurs 1 and Andreas Undhagen, amateurs 2.

2004's Racketvirtuosen will be played next summer, as usually the week after midsummer, the last week of June.

 

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