Tomas Leandersson

Tomas Leandersson, born on 11 April 1966 and from Degerfors, was a Swedish ten-pin bowler who died on 2 November 2021. He was a member of Team Sweden for more than ten years, on the team that won gold at the 1990 Nordic Bowling Championships, the 1994 World Tenpin Team Cup and the 1999 World Tenpin Bowling Championships. Individually he won the men's singles at the 1993 World Games and the 1999 European Championships, took bronze in Masters at the 1991 World Championships and in All Events in 1999, won the Bowling World Cup in 2000 and was named World Bowler of the Year by the World Bowling Writers in 1993. He was elected to the International Bowling Hall of Fame of the World Bowling Writers in 2000.