#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
61	Fujie Eguchi	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	1954–1959	82.8
62	He Zhili	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1983–1994	82.8
63	Matilda Ekholm	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	2001–2021	82.8
64	Damien Éloi	Table Tennis	🇫🇷 France	1987–2012	82.8
66	Kim Taek-soo	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	1988–2004	82.7
67	Kasumi Ishikawa	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	2008–2023	82.6
69	Wu Yang	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2011–2019	82.6
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
75	Csilla Bátorfi	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1984–2008	82
78	Li Ju	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1995–2004	81.9
79	Gábor Gergely	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1971–1990	81.9
83	Chiang Peng-lung	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Taiwan	2000–2016	81.9
85	Yang Ying	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1994–2005	81.5
87	Helen Elliot	Table Tennis	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1946–1957	81.2
88	Oldřich Blecha	Table Tennis	🇨🇿 Czechia	1954–1966	81.2
90	Wang Nan	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1995–2008	80.8
92	Judit Magos	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1968–1985	80.8
93	Carmen Crișan	Table Tennis	🇷🇴 Romania	1978–1990	80.8
94	Tibor Klampár	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1969–1988	80.7
97	Desmond Douglas	Table Tennis	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1974–1994	80.6
98	Chen Zhibin	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1983–1992	80.5
99	Ilija Lupulesku	Table Tennis	🇷🇸 Yugoslavia	1983–2008	80.5
100	Zhang Yining	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1997–2009	80.4
101	Dang Ye-seo	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	2002–2016	80.3
102	Hans Alser	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	1960–1974	80.3
103	Claude Bergeret	Table Tennis	🇫🇷 France	1971–1985	80.2
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
112	Zoran Kalinić	Table Tennis	🇷🇸 Yugoslavia	1975–1996	79.7
114	Michael Maze	Table Tennis	🇩🇰 Denmark	1999–2016	79.4
115	Wang Liqin	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1993–2013	79.2
116	Hyun Jung-hwa	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	1983–1994	79.2
117	Ernő Földi	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1928–1939	79.2
122	Fan Yunwei	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1998–2010	78.8
126	He Zhiwen	Table Tennis	🇪🇸 Spain	1984–2018	78.4
128	Li Xiaoxia	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2001–2017	78.3
133	Aleksandar Karakasevic	Table Tennis	🇷🇸 Serbia	1993–2020	78
135	Dora Beregi	Table Tennis	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1948–1962	77.8
138	Jack Carrington	Table Tennis	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1935–1955	77.7
139	Tazuko Abe	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	1955–1962	77.6
140	Thiago Monteiro	Table Tennis	🇧🇷 Brazil	1995–2018	77.6
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

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