Category profile
- Dominance
- 82
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 76
- Honours
- 86
- Statistics
- 86
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 50 | |
| 1989 | 62 | |
| 1990 | 73 | |
| 1991 | 85 | |
| 1992 | 96 | |
| 1993 | 85 | |
| 1994 | 74 | |
| 1995 | 62 | |
| 1996 | 51 | |
| 1997 | 40 |
Data sources
- ITTF official records
- World Table Tennis rankings
- Olympedia
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Ma Wenge ranks #41 in Table Tennis
Ma Wenge ranks 41st among Table Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 3433rd of 4013 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 83.8 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 82, Peak 90, Longevity 76, Honours 86, Statistics 86. 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 1988–1997 with 10 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1992, which sets the Peak component at 90. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 90 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes world team titles 2, asian championship titles 1, world championship medals 4, world cup medals 1.
Immediately ahead sits Jean-Philippe Gatien on 83.9, a gap of 0.1 points. Directly behind is Percival Bromfield on 83.8. 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.
Ma Wenge GOAT Score explained
- Dominance82/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Ma stood above the field while competing. Scored 82/100 against the full Table Tennis cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1992. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity76/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 9 years of competition and 10 recorded seasons. Scored 76/100.
- Honours86/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 86/100.
- Statistics86/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 86/100.
Top Ma comparisons
Ma Wenge — frequently asked
- Is Ma Wenge the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Ma Wenge ranks 41st in Table Tennis with a GOAT Score of 83.8, behind Ma Long on 97.3.
- What is Ma Wenge's GOAT Score?
- 83.8 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 82 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 76 (20%), Honours 86 (20%), Statistics 86 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Ma Wenge rank all time?
- 3433rd of 4013 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 41st within Table Tennis.
- Ma Wenge vs Jean-Philippe Gatien: who ranks higher?
- Jean-Philippe Gatien, on 83.9 against Ma Wenge's 83.8 — a margin of 0.1 points.