Category profile
- Dominance
- 82
- Peak
- 92
- Longevity
- 78
- Honours
- 86
- Statistics
- 82
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 58 | |
| 1986 | 70 | |
| 1987 | 82 | |
| 1988 | 96 | |
| 1989 | 90 | |
| 1990 | 86 | |
| 1991 | 84 | |
| 1992 | 80 | |
| 1993 | 74 | |
| 1994 | 68 | |
| 1995 | 60 | |
| 1996 | 52 |
Data sources
- ITTF
- Olympedia
- World Table Tennis
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Yoo Nam-kyu ranks #39 in Table Tennis
Yoo Nam-kyu ranks 39th among Table Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 3420th of 4013 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 84.0 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 82, Peak 92, Longevity 78, Honours 86, Statistics 82. 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 1985–1996 with 12 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1988, 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 olympic gold medals 1, olympic medals 3, world championship medals 4, asian games golds 2.
Immediately ahead sits István Boros on 84.1, a gap of 0.1 points. Directly behind is Jean-Philippe Gatien on 83.9. 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.
Yoo Nam-kyu GOAT Score explained
- Dominance82/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Yoo 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 1988. Scored 92/100.
- Longevity78/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 11 years of competition and 12 recorded seasons. Scored 78/100.
- Honours86/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 86/100.
- Statistics82/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 82/100.
Top Yoo comparisons
Yoo Nam-kyu — frequently asked
- Is Yoo Nam-kyu the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Yoo Nam-kyu ranks 39th in Table Tennis with a GOAT Score of 84.0, behind Ma Long on 97.3.
- What is Yoo Nam-kyu's GOAT Score?
- 84.0 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 82 (25%), Peak 92 (20%), Longevity 78 (20%), Honours 86 (20%), Statistics 82 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Yoo Nam-kyu rank all time?
- 3420th of 4013 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 39th within Table Tennis.
- Yoo Nam-kyu vs István Boros: who ranks higher?
- István Boros, on 84.1 against Yoo Nam-kyu's 84.0 — a margin of 0.1 points.