#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
9	Chen Jing	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Chinese Taipei	1986–2001	87
10	Guo Yuehua	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1977–1985	86.5
20	Jean-Michel Saive	Table Tennis	🇧🇪 Belgium	1986–2014	85
21	Zoran Primorac	Table Tennis	🇭🇷 Croatia	1985–2012	85
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
37	Cao Yanhua	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1980–1987	84.1
39	Yoo Nam-kyu	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	1985–1996	84
54	Jörg Rosskopf	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	1986–2004	83.1
55	Hugo Calderano	Table Tennis	🇧🇷 Brazil	2013–—	83
61	Fujie Eguchi	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	1954–1959	82.8
62	He Zhili	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1983–1994	82.8
65	Lin Shidong	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2022–—	82.7
66	Kim Taek-soo	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	1988–2004	82.7
67	Kasumi Ishikawa	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	2008–2023	82.6
68	Ni Xia Lian	Table Tennis	🇱🇺 Luxembourg	1983–—	82.6
73	Andrzej Grubba	Table Tennis	🇵🇱 Poland	1977–1997	82.2
74	Nobuhiko Hasegawa	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	1963–1973	82
77	Liang Jingkun	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2015–—	81.9
84	Mattias Falck	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	2008–—	81.5
90	Wang Nan	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1995–2008	80.8
94	Tibor Klampár	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1969–1988	80.7
97	Desmond Douglas	Table Tennis	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1974–1994	80.6
100	Zhang Yining	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1997–2009	80.4
102	Hans Alser	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1960–1974	80.3
104	Hina Hayata	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	2016–—	80.2
105	Han Ying	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2005–—	80.2
106	Chuang Chih-yuan	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Chinese Taipei	2000–—	80
108	Zoltán Berczik	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1952–1966	79.9
110	Erik Lindh	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1982–1996	79.8
111	Aruna Quadri	Table Tennis	🇳🇬 Nigeria	2006–—	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
118	Sun Yingsha	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2015–—	79.1
120	Omar Assar	Table Tennis	🇪🇬 Egypt	2006–—	79.1
121	Marcos Freitas	Table Tennis	🇵🇹 Portugal	2005–—	78.9
122	Fan Yunwei	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1998–2010	78.8
124	Adriana Díaz	Table Tennis	🇵🇷 Puerto Rico	2013–—	78.6
125	Koki Niwa	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	2010–—	78.5
126	He Zhiwen	Table Tennis	🇪🇸 Spain	1984–2018	78.4
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
131	Petrissa Solja	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2010–—	78.2
134	Qian Tianyi	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2015–—	78
136	Lin Yun-ju	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Taiwan	2017–—	77.8
137	Manika Batra	Table Tennis	🇮🇳 India	2011–—	77.8
140	Thiago Monteiro	Table Tennis	🇧🇷 Brazil	1995–2018	77.6

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