#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
1	Ma Long	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2006–—	97.3
5	Ding Ning	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2005–2021	89.7
8	Guo Yan	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2001–2012	87.4
14	Feng Tianwei	Table Tennis	🇸🇬 Singapore	2005–—	85.6
18	Li Jie	Table Tennis	🇳🇱 Netherlands	2000–2021	85.2
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
47	Gustavo Tsuboi	Table Tennis	🇧🇷 Brazil	2003–—	83.6
57	Wu Jiaduo	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2000–2016	82.9
63	Matilda Ekholm	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	2001–2021	82.8
67	Kasumi Ishikawa	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	2008–2023	82.6
80	Sarah De Nutte	Table Tennis	🇱🇺 Luxembourg	2008–—	81.9
81	Chuang Chia-Fu	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Taiwan	2005–—	81.9
83	Chiang Peng-lung	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Taiwan	2000–2016	81.9
84	Mattias Falck	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	2008–—	81.5
89	Patrick Franziska	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2009–—	81.1
96	Tiago Apolónia	Table Tennis	🇵🇹 Portugal	2002–—	80.6
101	Dang Ye-seo	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	2002–2016	80.3
105	Han Ying	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2005–—	80.2
106	Chuang Chih-yuan	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Chinese Taipei	2000–—	80
111	Aruna Quadri	Table Tennis	🇳🇬 Nigeria	2006–—	79.7
120	Omar Assar	Table Tennis	🇪🇬 Egypt	2006–—	79.1
121	Marcos Freitas	Table Tennis	🇵🇹 Portugal	2005–—	78.9
123	Chen Chien-an	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Chinese Taipei	2008–—	78.7
127	Chen Meng	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2007–—	78.3
128	Li Xiaoxia	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2001–2017	78.3
130	Emmanuel Lebesson	Table Tennis	🇫🇷 France	2006–—	78.2
132	Chen Szu-yu	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Chinese Taipei	2008–—	78.1
144	Zhang Jike	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2002–2019	77
148	Cheng I-ching	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Chinese Taipei	2008–—	76.8
149	Iveta Vacenovská	Table Tennis	🇨🇿 Czech Republic	2000–2021	76.8
150	Xu Yingying	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2002–2014	76.8
154	Mattias Karlsson	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	2006–—	76.4
155	Xu Xin	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2003–2023	76.2
158	Liu Shiwen	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2004–2021	75.5
159	Patrick Baum	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2003–2019	75.4
162	Quentin Robinot	Table Tennis	🇫🇷 France	2009–—	74.8
165	Ricardo Walther	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2006–—	74.3
170	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2003–—	72.5

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