The Most Famous

TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS from Portugal

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This page contains a list of the greatest Portuguese Table Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 107 Table Tennis Players, 2 of which were born in Portugal. This makes Portugal the birth place of the 14th most number of Table Tennis Players behind Belarus, and Austria.

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Portuguese Table Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Portuguese Table Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Marcos Freitas (b. 1988)

With an HPI of 43.56, Marcos Freitas is the most famous Portuguese Table Tennis Player.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.

Marcos André Sousa da Silva Freitas (born 8 April 1988) is a Portuguese table tennis player who won European Championships medals in singles, doubles, and team events. He represented Portugal four times at the Summer Olympics.

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2. Tiago Apolónia (b. 1986)

With an HPI of 40.20, Tiago Apolónia is the 2nd most famous Portuguese Table Tennis Player.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Tiago André Barata Feio Peixoto Apolónia (born 28 July 1986) is a Portuguese table tennis player for German club TTF LIEBHERR Ochsenhausen and Portugal. As of August 2016, he is ranked the number eighteenth player in the world.

People

Pantheon has 2 people classified as Portuguese table tennis players born between 1986 and 1988. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Portuguese table tennis players include Marcos Freitas, and Tiago Apolónia. As of April 2024, 1 new Portuguese table tennis players have been added to Pantheon including Tiago Apolónia.

Living Portuguese Table Tennis Players

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Newly Added Portuguese Table Tennis Players (2024)

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