#	Athlete	Sport	Country	Career	GOAT Score
3407	Cao Yanhua	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1980–1987	73.7
3421	Foluke Akinradewo	Volleyball	🇺🇸 United States	2005–2021	72.2
3432	Li Jiao	Table Tennis	🇳🇱 Netherlands	1996–2020	76.9
3434	Kim Kyung-ah	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	1995–2012	76.5
3439	Pinkie Barnes	Table Tennis	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1933–1951	76.0
3441	Lily Zhang	Table Tennis	🇺🇸 United States	2010–—	76.2
3442	Nelly Korda	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	2016–—	70.7
3450	Ariya Jutanugarn	Golf	🇹🇭 Thailand	2013–—	71.4
3451	Sung Hyun Park	Golf	🇰🇷 South Korea	2012–—	70.8
3456	Viktoria Pavlovich	Table Tennis	🇧🇾 Belarus	1996–2016	76.2
3457	Irina Belova	Athletics	🇷🇺 Russia	1989–2000	74.5
3458	Bai Yang	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1998–2008	74.6
3467	Yang Fangxu	Volleyball	🇨🇳 China	2003–2016	72.5
3471	Ai Fukuhara	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	1998–2018	76.3
3482	Tong Ling	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1987–1993	73.0
3483	Wu Jiaduo	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2000–2016	75.2
3484	Nicole Struse	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	1989–2006	75.6
3486	Cheng Hongxia	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1996–2006	74.0
3489	Fujie Eguchi	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	1954–1959	71.3
3491	Katarina Johnson-Thompson	Athletics	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	2011–—	74.7
3492	He Zhili	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1983–1994	73.3
3494	Matilda Ekholm	Table Tennis	🇸🇪 Sweden	2001–2021	75.9
3496	Zoya Yusova	Volleyball	🇷🇺 Soviet Union	1970–1982	71.8
3515	Kasumi Ishikawa	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	2008–2023	75.9
3516	Ni Xia Lian	Table Tennis	🇱🇺 Luxembourg	1983–—	77.5
3518	Wu Yang	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2011–2019	73.4
3527	Denise Lewis	Athletics	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1992–2005	74.1
3540	Sheilla Castro	Volleyball	🇧🇷 Brazil	2001–2017	71.4
3561	Csilla Bátorfi	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1984–2008	75.4
3567	Li Ju	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1995–2004	72.5
3571	Sarah De Nutte	Table Tennis	🇱🇺 Luxembourg	2008–—	75.0
3573	Suthasini Sawettabut	Table Tennis	🇹🇭 Thailand	2010–—	74.7
3584	Ericléia Bodziak	Volleyball	🇧🇷 Brazil	1992–2006	70.9
3594	Yang Ying	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1994–2005	72.8
3596	Miu Hirano	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	2013–—	72.8
3610	Michelle Wie	Golf	🇺🇸 United States	2005–2023	70.5
3615	Helen Elliot	Table Tennis	🇬🇧 United Kingdom	1946–1957	73.0
3628	Kosovare Asllani	Football	🇸🇪 Sweden	2007–—	63.9
3638	Wang Nan	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1995–2008	72.5
3643	Judit Magos	Table Tennis	🇭🇺 Hungary	1968–1985	73.5
3644	Carmen Crișan	Table Tennis	🇷🇴 Romania	1978–1990	73.2
3645	Zhu Yuling	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	2010–—	71.5
3656	Chen Zhibin	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1983–1992	71.1
3659	Zhang Yining	Table Tennis	🇨🇳 China	1997–2009	71.4
3661	Krystyna Czajkowska	Volleyball	🇵🇱 Poland	1959–1970	69.4
3662	Halina Aszkiełowicz-Wojno	Volleyball	🇵🇱 Poland	1962–1972	69.4
3666	Dang Ye-seo	Table Tennis	🇰🇷 South Korea	2002–2016	73.0
3669	Claude Bergeret	Table Tennis	🇫🇷 France	1971–1985	72.7
3671	Hina Hayata	Table Tennis	🇯🇵 Japan	2016–—	71.3
3672	Han Ying	Table Tennis	🇩🇪 Germany	2005–—	73.7

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