Category profile
- Dominance
- 80
- Peak
- 84
- Longevity
- 76
- Honours
- 84
- Statistics
- 80
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 4 | |
| 1998 | 7 | |
| 1999 | 9 | |
| 2000 | 8 | |
| 2001 | 7 | |
| 2002 | 6 | |
| 2003 | 8 | |
| 2004 | 6 | |
| 2005 | 5 | |
| 2006 | 4 | |
| 2007 | 3 | |
| 2008 | 2 |
Data sources
- ITTF
- Olympedia
- Olympics.com
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Wang Nan ranks #15 in Table Tennis
Wang Nan ranks 15th among Table Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 881st of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 80.8 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 80, Peak 84, Longevity 76, Honours 84, 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 1995–2008 with 12 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1999, which sets the Peak component at 84. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 84 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes olympic golds 4, world championship titles 15, world cup singles titles 4, world team titles 6.
Immediately ahead sits Miu Hirano on 81.4, a gap of 0.6 points. Directly behind is Jörgen Persson on 77.0. 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.
Wang Nan GOAT Score explained
- Dominance80/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Wang Nan stood above the field while competing. Scored 80/100 against the full Table Tennis cohort.
- Peak84/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1999. Scored 84/100.
- Longevity76/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 13 years of competition and 12 recorded seasons. Scored 76/100.
- Honours84/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 84/100.
- Statistics80/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 80/100.
Top Wang Nan comparisons
Wang Nan — frequently asked
- Is Wang Nan the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Wang Nan ranks 15th in Table Tennis with a GOAT Score of 80.8, behind Ma Long on 97.3.
- What is Wang Nan's GOAT Score?
- 80.8 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 80 (25%), Peak 84 (20%), Longevity 76 (20%), Honours 84 (20%), Statistics 80 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Wang Nan rank all time?
- 881st of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 15th within Table Tennis.
- Wang Nan vs Miu Hirano: who ranks higher?
- Miu Hirano, on 81.4 against Wang Nan's 80.8 — a margin of 0.6 points.