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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. He is currently ranked 45th in the ITTF world rankings as of January 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 713,406 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Timo Boll is the 4th most popular table tennis player (up from 10th in 2019), the 3,499th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,845th in 2019) and the most popular German Table Tennis Player.

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  • 49.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS

Among table tennis players, Timo Boll ranks 4 out of 79. Before him are Jan-Ove Waldner, Angelica Rozeanu, and Roland Jacobi. After him are 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 1981, Timo Boll ranks 55. Before him are Joaquín, Denis Pushilin, Fan Bingbing, Pitbull, Roque Santa Cruz, and Kim Jong-chul. After him are Bruno Alves, Heikki Kovalainen, Toše Proeski, Patrick J. Adams, Jun Ji-hyun, and Joseph Morgan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Timo Boll ranks 3,499 out of 6,142. Before him are Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781), Konrad Wolf (1925), Ingo Schwichtenberg (1965), Ruth Westheimer (1928), Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1849), and Klaus Doldinger (1936). After him are Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau (1824), Karl Ludwig Sand (1795), Michael Weikath (1962), Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen (1853), Christine Kirch (1697), and John Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1566).

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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), Bastian Steger (1981), Steffen Fetzner (1968), Christian Süß (1985), and Patrick Franziska (1992).

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