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Ni vs Ishikawa

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NiWinner
82.6

Ni wins: Longevity

Ishikawa
82.6

Ishikawa wins: Dominance, Peak, Honours, Statistics

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Showing full careers. Pick a window to recalculate the selected period.

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇱🇺 Ni Xia Lian
82.6

Ni leads in 1 of 5 weighted categories. World team champion for China in 1983 and still an Olympian four decades later.

1. Ni Xia Lian
82.6
2. Kasumi Ishikawa
82.6

Category breakdown

Season form · Titles per season

Career timeline · Titles per season

Cumulative output season by season — the shape of each career against the other.

GOAT pace tracker

Career stage · GOAT pace

Through season 5 · Titles per season
1. 🇱🇺 Ni Xia Lian5 seasons played · career day 1,825386 titles
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇯🇵 Kasumi Ishikawa5 seasons played · career day 1,826354 titles
-8.3% vs Ni at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇱🇺 Ni0080172386626
🇯🇵 Ishikawa0052114266720

Careers are aligned at debut, so a rookie's first 5 seasons are measured against the same window in a legend's career — Yamal against Messi at the same age-stage, a tour rookie against Tiger Woods in 1996.

MetricNiActiveIshikawaRetired
World team titles1
European titles2
Olympic Games contested5
European medals6
Years at the top level4216
Olympic medals3
Japanese national titles9
World Championship medals4
Career high world ranking3
Dominance w25%7476
Peak w20%8486
Longevity w20%9888
Honours w20%8084
Statistics w15%7880

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GOAT Rank · the data
Ni82.6
Ishikawa82.6
The people
Ni
Ishikawa

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