#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
2648	Jan-Ove Waldner	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1980–2016	85.7
2649	Patrik Eliáš	Ice Hockey	🇨🇿 Czech Republic	1994–2016	80.1
2650	Leon Day	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1934–1950	79.5
2651	Magnus Larsson	Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1988–2001	76.7
2652	Mike Brown	Swimming	🇨🇦 Canada	2003–2012	74.5
2653	Joe Mullen	Ice Hockey	🇺🇸 United States	1979–1997	79.4
2654	Neil Colville	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1935–1949	78.6
2655	Paolo Nicolai	Volleyball	🇮🇹 Italy	2008–—	81.2
2656	Jackie Robinson	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1945–1956	78.4
2658	Eli Manning	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	2004–2019	79.4
2660	Jake Beckley	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1888–1907	81.7
2661	Stretch Murphy	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1927–1935	72.1
2663	Alessio Boggiatto	Swimming	🇮🇹 Italy	1999–2012	75.4
2664	Trevor Hoffman	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1993–2010	80.1
2665	Tuffy Leemans	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1936–1943	77.3
2666	Rory Burns	Cricket	🇬🇧 England	2011–—	76.3
2667	Ace Bailey	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1926–1933	76.9
2668	Jimmy Gardner	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1900–1915	79.3
2669	John Hyden	Volleyball	🇺🇸 United States	1998–2021	82.5
2670	Charles Woodson	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1998–2015	79.8
2671	David Ortiz	Baseball	🇩🇴 Dominican Republic	1997–2016	80.0
2672	Steve Atwater	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1989–1999	78.4
2674	Joshua Pim	Tennis	🇮🇪 Ireland	1890–1900	73.3
2675	Lynn Swann	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1974–1982	76.5
2676	Dustin Johnson	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	2007–—	81.5
2677	Thurman Munson	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1969–1979	78.1
2678	Laddie Gale	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	1936–1946	72.5
2679	Ed Healey	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1920–1927	77.1
2680	Bouse Hutton	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1899–1904	76.1
2685	Peter Forsberg	Ice Hockey	🇸🇪 Sweden	1990–2011	77.4
2687	Jonathan Toews	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	2007–—	78.4
2688	Ja Morant	Basketball	🇺🇸 United States	2019–—	70.6
2689	Gaël Monfils	Tennis	🇫🇷 France	2004–—	78.5
2692	Old Tom Morris	Golf	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 United Kingdom	1851–1896	82.0
2694	Sergio García	Golf	🇪🇸 Spain	1999–—	82.9
2695	Drew Pearson	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1973–1983	78.3
2696	Stan Coveleski	Baseball	🇺🇸 United States	1912–1928	79.7
2697	John Childs	Cricket	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1975–1996	78.3
2698	Mariusz Wlazły	Volleyball	🇵🇱 Poland	2002–2023	81.1
2700	Manuel Orantes	Tennis	🇪🇸 Spain	1969–1984	75.8
2701	Dutch Clark	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1931–1938	76.0
2702	Roberto De Vicenzo	Golf	🇦🇷 Argentina	1938–1985	83.5
2703	Joe Guyon	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1920–1927	77.1
2704	Billy Burch	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	1922–1933	77.4
2705	Mike Dodd	Volleyball	🇺🇸 United States	1980–1997	81.2
2706	Sam Snead	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	1934–1979	83.4
2707	Nathan MacKinnon	Ice Hockey	🇨🇦 Canada	2013–—	77.2
2711	Bart Starr	American Football	🇺🇸 United States	1956–1971	77.7
2712	Daniel Sedin	Ice Hockey	🇸🇪 Sweden	1997–2018	79.6
2713	Buster Douglas	Boxing	🇺🇸 United States	1981–1999	73.5

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