#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
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
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
107	Doo Hoi Kem	Table Tennis	🇭🇰 Hong Kong	2012–—	79.9
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
116	Hyun Jung-hwa	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	1983–1994	79.2
117	Ernő Földi	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1928–1939	79.2
118	Sun Yingsha	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2015–—	79.1
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
122	Fan Yunwei	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1998–2010	78.8
123	Chen Chien-an	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Chinese Taipei	2008–—	78.7
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
129	Chen Xingtong	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2014–—	78.3
130	Emmanuel Lebesson	Table Tennis	🇫🇷 France	2006–—	78.2
131	Petrissa Solja	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2010–—	78.2
132	Chen Szu-yu	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Chinese Taipei	2008–—	78.1
133	Aleksandar Karakasevic	Table Tennis	🇷🇸 Serbia	1993–2020	78
134	Qian Tianyi	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2015–—	78
135	Dora Beregi	Table Tennis	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1948–1962	77.8
136	Lin Yun-ju	Table Tennis	🇹🇼 Taiwan	2017–—	77.8
137	Manika Batra	Table Tennis	🇮🇳 India	2011–—	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
141	Shin Yu-bin	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	2019–—	77.4
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
146	Adina Diaconu	Table Tennis	🇷🇴 Romania	2013–—	77
147	Ichiro Ogimura	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	1950–1964	76.9
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

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