Category profile
- Dominance
- 70
- Peak
- 80
- Longevity
- 88
- Honours
- 74
- Statistics
- 74
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 3 | |
| 1987 | 4 | |
| 1988 | 5 | |
| 1989 | 6 | |
| 1990 | 5 | |
| 1991 | 7 | |
| 1992 | 5 | |
| 1993 | 4 | |
| 1994 | 4 | |
| 1995 | 3 | |
| 1996 | 3 | |
| 1997 | 2 | |
| 1998 | 2 | |
| 1999 | 2 | |
| 2000 | 1 | |
| 2001 | 1 |
Data sources
- ITTF
- Olympedia
- Olympics.com
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Jörgen Persson ranks #16 in Table Tennis
Jörgen Persson ranks 16th among Table Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 903rd of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 77.0 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 70, Peak 80, Longevity 88, Honours 74, Statistics 74. Those categories are normalised against the full Table Tennis reference universe of 295 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1982–2011 with 16 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1991, which sets the Peak component at 80. Longevity is the defining strength of the profile at 88 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes world championship singles titles 1, world team titles 4, european championship titles 3, world cup titles 1.
Immediately ahead sits Wang Nan on 80.8, a gap of 3.8 points. Directly behind is Wang Liqin on 79.2. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Jörgen Persson GOAT Score explained
- Dominance70/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Persson stood above the field while competing. Scored 70/100 against the full Table Tennis cohort.
- Peak80/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1991. Scored 80/100.
- Longevity88/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 29 years of competition and 16 recorded seasons. Scored 88/100.
- Honours74/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 74/100.
- Statistics74/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 74/100.
Top Persson comparisons
Jörgen Persson — frequently asked
- Is Jörgen Persson the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Jörgen Persson ranks 16th in Table Tennis with a GOAT Score of 77.0, behind Ma Long on 97.3.
- What is Jörgen Persson's GOAT Score?
- 77.0 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 70 (25%), Peak 80 (20%), Longevity 88 (20%), Honours 74 (20%), Statistics 74 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Jörgen Persson rank all time?
- 903rd of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 16th within Table Tennis.
- Jörgen Persson vs Wang Nan: who ranks higher?
- Wang Nan, on 80.8 against Jörgen Persson's 77.0 — a margin of 3.8 points.