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Petra Sörling
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Petra Sörling

Swedish sports administrator

Petra Erika Gummesson Sörling (born 12 January 1971) is a Swedish sport administrator and business executive who has served as President of the International Table Tennis Federation since 2021, the first woman to hold that office. Re-elected in 2025 for a term to 2029, she has been a member of the International Olympic Committee since 2023, the first ITTF president to be elected to it.2

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Born Jan 12, 1971.1

About

Under her presidency, table tennis has reached several milestones. The ITTF World Table Tennis Championships 2023 in Durban were the first held in Africa since 1939, and the Olympic table tennis competition at Paris 2024 drew over 230,000 spectators across 15 days. The ITTF launched the Mixed Team World Cup in 2023, a format combining men and women in the same team that was subsequently added to the Olympic programme for Los Angeles 2028, and in 2026 announced a Doubles World Cup to begin in 2027.

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Early life and education

Sörling grew up in Malmö and holds a BSc in Business and Administration from Lund University and a degree in Management and Leadership from Stockholm School of Economics.

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Career

Occupation: business executive, sports executive.6

  • Since 2023Member of the International Olympic Committee3 4
  • Since 2021Chair, International Table Tennis Federation5

Sörling has worked for over 25 years in the real estate, construction and urban planning industry in Malmö. She was CEO of Rosengård Fastighets AB from its founding in 2017 until February 2026, having previously worked at HSB Sundsfastigheter. From March 2024 she took leave from the role to concentrate on the ITTF presidency and stepped down following her re-election.

Playing career

Sörling plays competitively in masters table tennis. Partnering Denmark's Pia Toelhøj, she won the women's doubles 45–49 title at the 2018 World Veteran Championships in Las Vegas, and the pair took silver in the women's doubles 50 category at the 2023 World Veteran Championships in Muscat, Oman. The same year they won bronze in women's doubles at the European Veterans Championships in Sandefjord, Norway. She has played club table tennis for Hillerød GI in Denmark, with whom she has won the Danish women's league championship.

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Personal life

  • CitizenshipSweden7

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