Category profile
- Dominance
- 80
- Peak
- 88
- Longevity
- 86
- Honours
- 84
- Statistics
- 88
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 50 | |
| 2009 | 54 | |
| 2010 | 58 | |
| 2011 | 63 | |
| 2012 | 67 | |
| 2013 | 71 | |
| 2014 | 75 | |
| 2015 | 79 | |
| 2016 | 84 | |
| 2017 | 88 | |
| 2018 | 92 | |
| 2019 | 91 | |
| 2020 | 90 | |
| 2021 | 89 | |
| 2022 | 88 | |
| 2023 | 87 | |
| 2024 | 86 | |
| 2025 | 85 | |
| 2026 | 84 |
Data sources
- ITTF world ranking and results archive
- Olympedia
- National federation records
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Kristian Karlsson ranks #25 in Table Tennis
Kristian Karlsson ranks 25th among Table Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 3370th of 4013 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 84.8 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 80, Peak 88, Longevity 86, Honours 84, Statistics 88. Those categories are normalised against the full Table Tennis reference universe of 291 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 2008–present with 19 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 2018, which sets the Peak component at 88. Peak 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 medals 2, european titles 1, swedish titles 5, olympic appearances 3.
Immediately ahead sits Ryu Seung-min on 84.7, a gap of -0.1 points. Directly behind is Yu Mengyu on 84.8. 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.
Kristian Karlsson GOAT Score explained
- Dominance80/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Karlsson stood above the field while competing. Scored 80/100 against the full Table Tennis cohort.
- Peak88/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 2018. Scored 88/100.
- Longevity86/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 18 years of competition and 19 recorded seasons. Scored 86/100.
- Honours84/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 84/100.
- Statistics88/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 88/100.
Top Karlsson comparisons
Kristian Karlsson — frequently asked
- Is Kristian Karlsson the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Kristian Karlsson ranks 25th in Table Tennis with a GOAT Score of 84.8, behind Ma Long on 97.3.
- What is Kristian Karlsson's GOAT Score?
- 84.8 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 80 (25%), Peak 88 (20%), Longevity 86 (20%), Honours 84 (20%), Statistics 88 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Kristian Karlsson rank all time?
- 3370th of 4013 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 25th within Table Tennis.
- Kristian Karlsson vs Ryu Seung-min: who ranks higher?
- Kristian Karlsson, on 84.8 against Ryu Seung-min's 84.7 — a margin of 0.1 points.