Category profile
- Dominance
- 82
- Peak
- 92
- Longevity
- 70
- Honours
- 86
- Statistics
- 86
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 50 | |
| 1988 | 66 | |
| 1989 | 81 | |
| 1990 | 97 | |
| 1991 | 78 | |
| 1992 | 59 | |
| 1993 | 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 Tong Ling ranks #56 in Table Tennis
Tong Ling ranks 56th among Table Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 3488th of 4013 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 83.0 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 82, Peak 92, Longevity 70, 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 1987–1993 with 7 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1990, which sets the Peak component at 92. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 92 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes world cup titles 1, world team titles 2, asian championship titles 2, world championship medals 4.
Immediately ahead sits Hugo Calderano on 83.0, a gap of 0.0 points. Directly behind is Wu Jiaduo on 82.9. 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.
Tong Ling GOAT Score explained
- Dominance82/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Tong stood above the field while competing. Scored 82/100 against the full Table Tennis cohort.
- Peak92/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1990. Scored 92/100.
- Longevity70/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 6 years of competition and 7 recorded seasons. Scored 70/100.
- 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 Tong comparisons
Tong Ling — frequently asked
- Is Tong Ling the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Tong Ling ranks 56th in Table Tennis with a GOAT Score of 83.0, behind Ma Long on 97.3.
- What is Tong Ling's GOAT Score?
- 83.0 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 82 (25%), Peak 92 (20%), Longevity 70 (20%), Honours 86 (20%), Statistics 86 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Tong Ling rank all time?
- 3488th of 4013 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 56th within Table Tennis.
- Tong Ling vs Hugo Calderano: who ranks higher?
- Tong Ling, on 83.0 against Hugo Calderano's 83.0 — a margin of 0.0 points.