Category profile
- Dominance
- 80
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 80
- Honours
- 84
- Statistics
- 84
Career timeline · Titles per season
| Season | Titles per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 45 | |
| 1947 | 53 | |
| 1948 | 62 | |
| 1949 | 70 | |
| 1950 | 78 | |
| 1951 | 87 | |
| 1952 | 95 | |
| 1953 | 84 | |
| 1954 | 73 | |
| 1955 | 62 | |
| 1956 | 51 | |
| 1957 | 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 Žarko Dolinar ranks #49 in Table Tennis
Žarko Dolinar ranks 49th among Table Tennis athletes on GOAT Rank and 3452nd of 4013 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 83.4 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 80, Peak 90, Longevity 80, Honours 84, Statistics 84. 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 1946–1957 with 12 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1952, 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 doubles titles 1, world championship medals 5, national titles 6, world team medals 3.
Immediately ahead sits Lily Zhang on 83.6, a gap of 0.2 points. Directly behind is Viktoria Pavlovich on 83.3. 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.
Žarko Dolinar GOAT Score explained
- Dominance80/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Dolinar 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 1952. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity80/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 11 years of competition and 12 recorded seasons. Scored 80/100.
- Honours84/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 84/100.
- Statistics84/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 84/100.
Top Dolinar comparisons
Žarko Dolinar — frequently asked
- Is Žarko Dolinar the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Žarko Dolinar ranks 49th in Table Tennis with a GOAT Score of 83.4, behind Ma Long on 97.3.
- What is Žarko Dolinar's GOAT Score?
- 83.4 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 80 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 80 (20%), Honours 84 (20%), Statistics 84 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Žarko Dolinar rank all time?
- 3452nd of 4013 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 49th within Table Tennis.
- Žarko Dolinar vs Lily Zhang: who ranks higher?
- Lily Zhang, on 83.6 against Žarko Dolinar's 83.4 — a margin of 0.2 points.