Occupation
TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS
With 79 biographies, Table Tennis Players are the 67th most common occupation in Pantheon, behind Producers, Designers, and Badminton Players.
Pantheon has 84 people classified as table tennis players born between 1893 and 2000. Of these 84, 76 (90.48%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living table tennis players include Jan-Ove Waldner, Timo Boll, and Jörgen Persson. The most famous deceased table tennis players include Angelica Rozeanu, Roland Jacobi, and Mária Mednyánszky. As of April 2022, 5 new table tennis players have been added to Pantheon including Chen Meng, Lü Lin, and Miu Hirano.
Living Table Tennis Players
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Jan-Ove Waldner
1965 - Present
HPI: 54.84
Timo Boll
1981 - Present
HPI: 49.77
Jörgen Persson
1966 - Present
HPI: 47.87
Vladimir Samsonov
1976 - Present
HPI: 45.93
Jean-Michel Saive
1969 - Present
HPI: 45.61
Mikael Appelgren
1961 - Present
HPI: 43.72
Dimitrij Ovtcharov
1988 - Present
HPI: 43.47
Zoran Primorac
1969 - Present
HPI: 43.17
Stellan Bengtsson
1952 - Present
HPI: 42.70
Ma Long
1988 - Present
HPI: 42.55
Ma Lin
1980 - Present
HPI: 42.07
Wang Liqin
1978 - Present
HPI: 42.06
Deceased Table Tennis Players
Go to all RankingsAngelica Rozeanu
1921 - 2006
HPI: 54.09
Roland Jacobi
1893 - 1951
HPI: 50.14
Mária Mednyánszky
1901 - 1978
HPI: 49.32
Zhuang Zedong
1940 - 2013
HPI: 49.17
Miklós Szabados
1912 - 1962
HPI: 47.56
Richard Bergmann
1919 - Present
HPI: 46.63
Agnes Simon
1935 - 2020
HPI: 46.08
Kjell Johansson
1946 - 2011
HPI: 41.77
Newly Added Table Tennis Players (2022)
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Chen Meng
1994 - Present
HPI: 35.45
Lü Lin
1969 - Present
HPI: 31.18
Miu Hirano
2000 - Present
HPI: 31.10
Wang Manyu
1999 - Present
HPI: 28.52
Patrick Franziska
1992 - Present
HPI: 26.70
Most table tennis players were born in China (29), South Korea (10), and Japan (8). By city, the most common birth places were Anshan (4), Budapest (3), and Stockholm (2).The most common death places of table tennis players were Hungary (2), Israel (1), and China (1). By city, these were Budapest (2), Haifa (1), and Beijing (1).
The earliest biographies classified as table tennis players in Pantheon are Miklós Szabados, Mária Mednyánszky, and Roland Jacobi. The concentration of table tennis players was largest during the Television Era, which lasted from 1950 to 1989. Some birth or death locations for earlier table tennis players are unknown, which may account for timeline differences below.
Which Table Tennis Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 7 most globally memorable Table Tennis Players since 1700.
Table Tennis Players are found within the Sports domain which also includes Soccer Players, Athletes, Basketball Players, Cyclists, and Tennis Players.
