#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
94	Tibor Klampár	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1969–1988	80.7
96	Tiago Apolónia	Table Tennis	🇵🇹 Portugal	2002–—	80.6
97	Desmond Douglas	Table Tennis	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1974–1994	80.6
99	Ilija Lupulesku	Table Tennis	🇷🇸 Yugoslavia	1983–2008	80.5
102	Hans Alser	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1960–1974	80.3
106	Chuang Chih-yuan	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Chinese Taipei	2000–—	80
108	Zoltán Berczik	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1952–1966	79.9
109	Cheung Yuk	Table Tennis	🇭🇰 Hong Kong	1996–2016	79.8
110	Erik Lindh	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1982–1996	79.8
111	Aruna Quadri	Table Tennis	🇳🇬 Nigeria	2006–—	79.7
112	Zoran Kalinić	Table Tennis	🇷🇸 Yugoslavia	1975–1996	79.7
113	Panagiotis Gionis	Table Tennis	🇬🇷 Greece	1998–—	79.6
114	Michael Maze	Table Tennis	🇩🇰 Denmark	1999–2016	79.4
115	Wang Liqin	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1993–2013	79.2
117	Ernő Földi	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1928–1939	79.2
119	Wang Chuqin	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2016–—	79.1
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
125	Koki Niwa	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	2010–—	78.5
126	He Zhiwen	Table Tennis	🇪🇸 Spain	1984–2018	78.4
130	Emmanuel Lebesson	Table Tennis	🇫🇷 France	2006–—	78.2
133	Aleksandar Karakasevic	Table Tennis	🇷🇸 Serbia	1993–2020	78
136	Lin Yun-ju	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Taiwan	2017–—	77.8
138	Jack Carrington	Table Tennis	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1935–1955	77.7
140	Thiago Monteiro	Table Tennis	🇧🇷 Brazil	1995–2018	77.6
142	Anton Källberg	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	2013–—	77.3
143	Petr Korbel	Table Tennis	🇨🇿 Czech Republic	1988–2012	77.2
144	Zhang Jike	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2002–2019	77
145	Jörgen Persson	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1982–2011	77
147	Ichiro Ogimura	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	1950–1964	76.9
151	Wang Hao	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1998–2014	76.7
152	Fang Bo	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2011–2021	76.6
153	Chester Barnes	Table Tennis	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England	1961–1976	76.5
154	Mattias Karlsson	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	2006–—	76.4
155	Xu Xin	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2003–2023	76.2
157	Cho Dae-seong	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	2016–—	75.8
159	Patrick Baum	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2003–2019	75.4
161	Liu Guoliang	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1991–2002	74.8
162	Quentin Robinot	Table Tennis	🇫🇷 France	2009–—	74.8
164	Vladimir Samsonov	Table Tennis	🇧🇾 Belarus	1991–2021	74.5
165	Ricardo Walther	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2006–—	74.3
166	Mikael Appelgren	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1977–1996	74.2
167	Martin Bratanov	Table Tennis	🇧🇬 Bulgaria	1996–2016	74
168	Kong Linghui	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1991–2006	73.8
169	Timo Boll	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	1995–2024	72.6
170	Dimitrij Ovtcharov	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2003–—	72.5
171	Benedikt Duda	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2013–—	72.4
172	Kilian Ort	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2012–—	71.9
174	Peter Karlsson	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1984–2009	70.1

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