Category profile
- Dominance
- 86
- Peak
- 94
- Longevity
- 62
- Honours
- 84
- Statistics
- 88
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 62 | |
| 2023 | 80 | |
| 2024 | 92 | |
| 2025 | 96 |
Data sources
- ITTF
- Olympedia
- World Table Tennis
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Lin Shidong ranks #65 in Table Tennis
Lin Shidong ranks 65th among Table Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 3508th of 4013 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 82.7 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 86, Peak 94, Longevity 62, 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 2022–present with 4 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 2025, 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 world championship singles titles 1, wtt grand smash titles 3, weeks at world number one 60, world cup titles 1.
Immediately ahead sits Damien Éloi on 82.8, a gap of 0.1 points. Directly behind is Kim Taek-soo on 82.7. 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.
Lin Shidong GOAT Score explained
- Dominance86/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Lin S. stood above the field while competing. Scored 86/100 against the full Table Tennis cohort.
- Peak94/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 2025. Scored 94/100.
- Longevity62/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 4 years of competition and 4 recorded seasons. Scored 62/100.
- 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.
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Lin Shidong — frequently asked
- Is Lin Shidong the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Lin Shidong ranks 65th in Table Tennis with a GOAT Score of 82.7, behind Ma Long on 97.3.
- What is Lin Shidong's GOAT Score?
- 82.7 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 86 (25%), Peak 94 (20%), Longevity 62 (20%), Honours 84 (20%), Statistics 88 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Lin Shidong rank all time?
- 3508th of 4013 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 65th within Table Tennis.
- Lin Shidong vs Damien Éloi: who ranks higher?
- Damien Éloi, on 82.8 against Lin Shidong's 82.7 — a margin of 0.1 points.