TABLE TENNIS PLAYER

Timo Boll

1981 - Today

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Timo Boll (German pronunciation: [ˈtiːmo ˈbɔl], ; born 8 March 1981) is a German professional table tennis player, who currently plays for Borussia Düsseldorf. His last rank before retirement was rank 23rd in the ITTF world rankings as of August 2024. Boll is the most successful German table tennis player of all time, having won several medals at Olympic Games, world cups, and world championships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Timo Boll has received more than 789,279 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Timo Boll is the 5th most popular table tennis player (down from 4th in 2019), the 3,934th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,495th in 2019) and the most popular German Table Tennis Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS

Among table tennis players, Timo Boll ranks 5 out of 107. Before him are Angelica Rozeanu, Jan-Ove Waldner, Roland Jacobi, and Mária Mednyánszky. After him are Zhuang Zedong, Jörgen Persson, Richard Bergmann, Miklós Szabados, Zoltán Mechlovits, Anna Sipos, and Zoltán Berczik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Timo Boll ranks 60. Before him are Dmytro Kuleba, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nikki Benz, Diego López, Júlio Baptista, and Roque Santa Cruz. After him are Alexis Bledel, Joseph Morgan, Jun Ji-hyun, Joaquín, Denis Pushilin, and Jang Na-ra.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Timo Boll ranks 3,934 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Zille (1858), Irmgard Seefried (1919), Halet Çambel (1916), Heinrich Burger (1881), Leopold II, Prince of Lippe (1796), and Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1846). After him are Friedrich Sixt von Armin (1851), Hans Felber (1889), Werner Teske (1942), Paul Deussen (1845), Prince August of Württemberg (1813), and Per Mertesacker (1984).

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Among TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS In Germany

Among table tennis players born in Germany, Timo Boll ranks 1. After him are Jörg Roßkopf (1969), Steffen Fetzner (1968), Bastian Steger (1981), Patrick Franziska (1992), and Christian Süß (1985).

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