YEAR 
The Chinese star Jiang Jialiang kept his World Ranking leader position after winning Asian Championships and finishing second at the World Cup. The highest-ranked European player was Jörgen Persson, who finished 1986 at the #2 spot after his triumph at the European Championships in Prague.
TOP 30 PLAYERS IN THE WORLD RANKING
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Player
Jiang Jialiang
Jörgen Persson
Teng Yi
Chen Longcan
Leszek Kucharski
Wang Hao
Andrzej Grubba
Ulf Carlsson
Kim Wan
Erik Lindh
Andrei Mazunov
Desmond Douglas
Mikael Appelgren
Jan-Ove Waldner
Lo Chuen-tsung
Zoran Kalinic
Zsolt Kriston
Tibor Klampar
Jindrich Pansky
Carl Prean
Dragutin Šurbek
Kiyoshi Saito
Yoshihito Miyazaki
Hui Jun
Milan Orlowski
Jörg Roßkopf
M.Constantini
Stefan Stefanov
Bela Mesaros
Valery Shevchenko
N
EC
x
x
x
x
x
1/4
1/4
1/4
1/4
R16
x
R16
R16
R16
R16
R16
R16
x
x
x
R16
R32
R32
x
x
R128
AC
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
WC
9th
x
x
x
6th
x
x
x
x
5th
x
4th
x
x
x
x
x
15th
7th
8th
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
E12
6th
x
x
5th
x
8th
4th
x
7th
x
x
x
x
9th
10th
11th
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
PRO TOUR
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
x
Description
N – Nationality EC – European Championships AC – Asian Championships WC – World Cup E12 – Europe Top 12 & other flags – Pro Tour events
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