#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
1	Ma Long	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2006–—	97.3
2	Jan-Ove Waldner	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1980–2016	94.1
3	Viktor Barna	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1929–1954	93.6
4	Deng Yaping	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1988–1997	91.4
5	Ding Ning	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2005–2021	89.7
6	Fan Zhendong	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2012–—	88.5
7	Wang Tao	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1989–1999	87.4
8	Guo Yan	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2001–2012	87.4
9	Chen Jing	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Chinese Taipei	1986–2001	87
10	Guo Yuehua	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1977–1985	86.5
11	Ma Lin	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1998–2013	86.4
12	Cai Zhenhua	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1979–1989	86.3
13	Ni Xialian	Table Tennis	🇱🇺 Luxembourg	1983–—	86.2
14	Feng Tianwei	Table Tennis	🇸🇬 Singapore	2005–—	85.6
15	Kalinikos Kreanga	Table Tennis	🇬🇷 Greece	1990–2016	85.6
16	Otilia Bădescu	Table Tennis	🇷🇴 Romania	1986–2008	85.3
17	Qiao Hong	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1986–1997	85.2
18	Li Jie	Table Tennis	🇳🇱 Netherlands	2000–2021	85.2
19	Chen Qi	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1999–2013	85.1
20	Jean-Michel Saive	Table Tennis	🇧🇪 Belgium	1986–2014	85
21	Zoran Primorac	Table Tennis	🇭🇷 Croatia	1985–2012	85
22	Jun Mizutani	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	2003–2021	84.9
23	Daniela Dodean Monteiro	Table Tennis	🇷🇴 Romania	2003–—	84.9
24	Kristian Karlsson	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	2008–—	84.8
25	Yu Mengyu	Table Tennis	🇸🇬 Singapore	2008–2021	84.8
26	Ryu Seung-min	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	1999–2014	84.7
27	Werner Schlager	Table Tennis	🇦🇹 Austria	1990–2015	84.6
28	Joo Se-hyuk	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	1998–2020	84.6
29	Elmira Antonyan	Table Tennis	🇦🇲 Armenia	1968–1979	84.6
30	Jiang Jialiang	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1982–1990	84.5
31	Tamara Boroš	Table Tennis	🇭🇷 Croatia	1993–2012	84.5
32	István Jónyer	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1969–1983	84.4
33	Chen Longcan	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1984–1991	84.3
34	Yang Young-ja	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	1983–1990	84.3
35	Zhuang Zedong	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1959–1972	84.2
36	Cha Hyo-sim	Table Tennis	🇰🇵 North Korea	2014–—	84.2
37	Cao Yanhua	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1980–1987	84.1
38	István Boros	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1975–1988	84.1
39	Yoo Nam-kyu	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	1985–1996	84
40	Jean-Philippe Gatien	Table Tennis	🇫🇷 France	1985–2000	83.9
41	Ma Wenge	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1988–1997	83.8
42	Percival Bromfield	Table Tennis	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1926–1935	83.8
43	Li Jiao	Table Tennis	🇳🇱 Netherlands	1996–2020	83.7
44	Anatoly Amelin	Table Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	1962–1974	83.7
45	Kim Kyung-ah	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	1995–2012	83.6
46	Pinkie Barnes	Table Tennis	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1933–1951	83.6
47	Gustavo Tsuboi	Table Tennis	🇧🇷 Brazil	2003–—	83.6
48	Lily Zhang	Table Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	2010–—	83.6
49	Žarko Dolinar	Table Tennis	🇭🇷 Croatia	1946–1957	83.4
50	Viktoria Pavlovich	Table Tennis	🇧🇾 Belarus	1996–2016	83.3

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