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Grubba vs Waldner

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WaldnerWinner
94.1

Waldner wins: Dominance, Peak, Longevity, Honours, Statistics

Grubba
24.6

Grubba wins: no category outright

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇸🇪 Jan-Ove Waldner
94.1

Waldner leads in 5 of 5 weighted categories. “The Mozart of table tennis” — Olympic gold in 1992 and a legend in China.

GrubbaInsufficient verified career data to calculate a reliable GOAT Score.

1. Jan-Ove Waldner
94.1
2. Andrzej Grubba
Pending verification

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

Through age 22 · Titles per season
1. 🇸🇪 Jan-Ove Waldner3 titles
1 season by age 22 · 3 per season

Setting the pace at age 22

No verified birth date for Grubba — shown in the pro-debut view instead.

Every career is cut at the season the athlete turned 22, so a rookie today is measured against exactly what a legend had banked by the same birthday.

MetricGrubbaRetiredWaldnerRetired
Polish Sportspersonality of the Year1
Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta1
ETTU Hall of Fame1
Gold Medal "For Outstanding Sport Achievements"1
Olympic golds1
World singles titles2
World Cup titles1
Olympic medals2
European titles3
Seasons at elite level30
Dominance w25%24.593
Peak w20%26.597
Longevity w20%22.598
Honours w20%25.590
Statistics w15%23.592

Fan vote — data vs the people

GOAT Rank · the data
Waldner94.1
Grubba24.6
The people
Grubba
Waldner

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