Category profile
- Dominance
- 80
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 82
- Honours
- 82
- Statistics
- 80
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 1 | |
| 1970 | 2 | |
| 1971 | 4 | |
| 1972 | 3 | |
| 1973 | 3 | |
| 1974 | 2 | |
| 1975 | 3 | |
| 1976 | 2 | |
| 1977 | 2 | |
| 1978 | 2 | |
| 1979 | 1 | |
| 1980 | 2 | |
| 1981 | 1 | |
| 1982 | 1 | |
| 1983 | 1 | |
| 1984 | 0 | |
| 1985 | 0 |
Data sources
- ITTF
- Olympedia
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Stellan Bengtsson ranks #12 in Table Tennis
Stellan Bengtsson ranks 12th among Table Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 830th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 82.8 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 80, Peak 90, Longevity 82, Honours 82, Statistics 80. 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 1968–1985 with 17 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1971, 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 singles titles 1, european titles 5, world championship medals 9, swedish titles 10.
Immediately ahead sits Jean-Philippe Gatien on 83.9, a gap of 1.1 points. Directly behind is Zhuang Zedong on 84.2. 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.
Stellan Bengtsson GOAT Score explained
- Dominance80/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Bengtsson stood above the field while competing. Scored 80/100 against the full Table Tennis cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1971. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity82/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 17 years of competition and 17 recorded seasons. Scored 82/100.
- Honours82/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 82/100.
- Statistics80/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 80/100.
Top Bengtsson comparisons
Stellan Bengtsson — frequently asked
- Is Stellan Bengtsson the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Stellan Bengtsson ranks 12th in Table Tennis with a GOAT Score of 82.8, behind Ma Long on 97.3.
- What is Stellan Bengtsson's GOAT Score?
- 82.8 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 80 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 82 (20%), Honours 82 (20%), Statistics 80 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Stellan Bengtsson rank all time?
- 830th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 12th within Table Tennis.
- Stellan Bengtsson vs Jean-Philippe Gatien: who ranks higher?
- Jean-Philippe Gatien, on 83.9 against Stellan Bengtsson's 82.8 — a margin of 1.1 points.