Category profile
- Dominance
- 90
- Peak
- 94
- Longevity
- 76
- Honours
- 90
- Statistics
- 88
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 3 | |
| 1980 | 4 | |
| 1981 | 6 | |
| 1982 | 5 | |
| 1983 | 5 | |
| 1984 | 6 | |
| 1985 | 5 | |
| 1986 | 4 |
Data sources
- FIVB
- Volleyball Hall of Fame
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Lang Ping ranks #9 in Volleyball
Lang Ping ranks 9th among Volleyball athletes on GOAT Rank and 633rd of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 87.7 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 90, Peak 94, Longevity 76, Honours 90, Statistics 88. Those categories are normalised against the full Volleyball reference universe of 310 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1978–1986 with 8 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1981, which sets the Peak component at 94. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 94 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes olympic golds as player 1, world cup titles 2, world championship titles 1, olympic golds as coach 1.
Immediately ahead sits Alison Cerutti on 86.3, a gap of -1.4 points. Directly behind is Fernanda Venturini on 84.7. 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.
Lang Ping GOAT Score explained
- Dominance90/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Lang stood above the field while competing. Scored 90/100 against the full Volleyball cohort.
- Peak94/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1981. Scored 94/100.
- Longevity76/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 8 years of competition and 8 recorded seasons. Scored 76/100.
- Honours90/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 90/100.
- Statistics88/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 88/100.
Top Lang comparisons
Lang Ping — frequently asked
- Is Lang Ping the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Lang Ping ranks 9th in Volleyball with a GOAT Score of 87.7, behind Karch Kiraly on 95.4.
- What is Lang Ping's GOAT Score?
- 87.7 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 90 (25%), Peak 94 (20%), Longevity 76 (20%), Honours 90 (20%), Statistics 88 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Lang Ping rank all time?
- 633rd of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 9th within Volleyball.
- Lang Ping vs Alison Cerutti: who ranks higher?
- Lang Ping, on 87.7 against Alison Cerutti's 86.3 — a margin of 1.4 points.