Category profile
- Dominance
- 84
- Peak
- 94
- Longevity
- 70
- Honours
- 88
- Statistics
- 86
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 50 | |
| 1984 | 62 | |
| 1985 | 74 | |
| 1986 | 85 | |
| 1987 | 97 | |
| 1988 | 78 | |
| 1989 | 59 | |
| 1990 | 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 Yang Young-ja ranks #34 in Table Tennis
Yang Young-ja ranks 34th among Table Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 3397th of 4013 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 84.3 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 84, Peak 94, Longevity 70, Honours 88, 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 1983–1990 with 8 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1987, 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 olympic gold medals 1, world doubles titles 1, asian games titles 2, world championship medals 4.
Immediately ahead sits Chen Longcan on 84.3, a gap of 0.0 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.
Yang Young-ja GOAT Score explained
- Dominance84/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Yang stood above the field while competing. Scored 84/100 against the full Table Tennis cohort.
- Peak94/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1987. Scored 94/100.
- Longevity70/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 7 years of competition and 8 recorded seasons. Scored 70/100.
- Honours88/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 88/100.
- Statistics86/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 86/100.
Top Yang comparisons
Yang Young-ja — frequently asked
- Is Yang Young-ja the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Yang Young-ja ranks 34th in Table Tennis with a GOAT Score of 84.3, behind Ma Long on 97.3.
- What is Yang Young-ja's GOAT Score?
- 84.3 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 84 (25%), Peak 94 (20%), Longevity 70 (20%), Honours 88 (20%), Statistics 86 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Yang Young-ja rank all time?
- 3397th of 4013 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 34th within Table Tennis.
- Yang Young-ja vs Chen Longcan: who ranks higher?
- Yang Young-ja, on 84.3 against Chen Longcan's 84.3 — a margin of 0.0 points.