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TABLE TENNIS PLAYER

Jan-Ove Waldner

1965 - Today

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Jan-Ove Waldner (Swedish: [ˈjɑːn uːvɛ ˈvǎldnɛr]; born 3 October 1965), in Sweden commonly J-O Waldner (Swedish: [ˈjiː uː], is a Swedish former professional table tennis player. He is often referred to as "the Mozart of table tennis." A sporting legend in his native Sweden as well as in China, he is known in China as 老瓦 Lǎo Wǎ ("Old Wa") or 常青树 Cháng Qīng Shù ("Evergreen Tree"), because of his extraordinary longevity and competitiveness. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan-Ove Waldner has received more than 680,913 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Jan-Ove Waldner is the most popular table tennis player, the 295th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 323rd in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Table Tennis Player.

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  • 680k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS

Among table tennis players, Jan-Ove Waldner ranks 1 out of 79. After him are Angelica Rozeanu, Roland Jacobi, Timo Boll, Mária Mednyánszky, Zhuang Zedong, Jörgen Persson, Miklós Szabados, Richard Bergmann, Agnes Simon, Vladimir Samsonov, and Jean-Michel Saive.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Jan-Ove Waldner ranks 63. Before him are Vahide Perçin, Adama Barrow, Jeffrey Wright, Andrea M. Ghez, Zakir Naik, and Lennox Lewis. After him are Valeria Golino, Shania Twain, Manuel Uribe, Kristin Davis, Satoshi Tajiri, and KRS-One.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Jan-Ove Waldner ranks 295 out of 1,612. Before him are Pernilla August (1958), Otto Nordenskjöld (1869), Thomas Ravelli (1959), Ivar Kreuger (1880), Prince Oscar Bernadotte (1859), and Mikkey Dee (1963). After him are Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken (1616), Johannes Magnus (1488), Anna Vasa of Sweden (1568), Noomi Rapace (1979), Erik Dahlbergh (1625), and Sven Nordqvist (1946).

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Among TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS In Sweden

Among table tennis players born in Sweden, Jan-Ove Waldner ranks 1. After him are Jörgen Persson (1966), Mikael Appelgren (1961), Stellan Bengtsson (1952), Kjell Johansson (1946), Erik Lindh (1964), and Peter Karlsson (1969).

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