Eriksson was born in Växjö and turned professional in 1991 having won the European Amateur and the French Amateur Stoke Play Championship the previous year.
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Trappel won his National Championship before winning the 2011 European Amateur at Halmstad Golf Club in Sweden.
In 1979, as a member of the Mladi Radnik Sports Society from Požarevac, he won the silver medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships.