#	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
6	Fan Zhendong	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2012–—	88.5
7	Wang Tao	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1989–1999	87.4
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
15	Kalinikos Kreanga	Table Tennis	🇬🇷 Greece	1990–2016	85.6
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
24	Kristian Karlsson	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	2008–—	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
30	Jiang Jialiang	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1982–1990	84.5
32	István Jónyer	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1969–1983	84.4
33	Chen Longcan	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1984–1991	84.3
35	Zhuang Zedong	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1959–1972	84.2
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
44	Anatoly Amelin	Table Tennis	🇷🇺 Russia	1962–1974	83.7
47	Gustavo Tsuboi	Table Tennis	🇧🇷 Brazil	2003–—	83.6
49	Žarko Dolinar	Table Tennis	🇭🇷 Croatia	1946–1957	83.4
52	Zoltán Bubonyi	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1977–1990	83.2
54	Jörg Rosskopf	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	1986–2004	83.1
55	Hugo Calderano	Table Tennis	🇧🇷 Brazil	2013–—	83
60	Stellan Bengtsson	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1968–1985	82.8
64	Damien Éloi	Table Tennis	🇫🇷 France	1987–2012	82.8
65	Lin Shidong	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2022–—	82.7
66	Kim Taek-soo	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	1988–2004	82.7
70	Tage Flisberg	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1946–1958	82.5
71	Josef Dvořáček	Table Tennis	🇨🇿 Czechia	1951–1964	82.5
72	Zlatko Čordaš	Table Tennis	🇭🇷 Croatia	1968–1980	82.4
73	Andrzej Grubba	Table Tennis	🇵🇱 Poland	1977–1997	82.2
74	Nobuhiko Hasegawa	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	1963–1973	82
76	Kanak Jha	Table Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	2014–—	82
77	Liang Jingkun	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2015–—	81.9
79	Gábor Gergely	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1971–1990	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
88	Oldřich Blecha	Table Tennis	🇨🇿 Czechia	1954–1966	81.2
89	Patrick Franziska	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2009–—	81.1
91	Simon Gauzy	Table Tennis	🇫🇷 France	2010–—	80.8

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