Category profile
- Dominance
- 88
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 92
- Honours
- 92
- Statistics
- 88
Career timeline · Major golds per season
| Season | Major golds per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 22.18 | |
| 2005 | 22.13 | |
| 2006 | 22.11 | |
| 2007 | 21.81 | |
| 2008 | 21.93 | |
| 2009 | 21.88 | |
| 2010 | 22.01 | |
| 2011 | 22.32 | |
| 2012 | 21.69 | |
| 2013 | 22.02 | |
| 2014 | 22.08 | |
| 2015 | 49.26 | |
| 2016 | 49.51 | |
| 2017 | 49.9 | |
| 2018 | 50.1 | |
| 2019 | 51.2 |
Data sources
- World Athletics
- Olympedia
- Olympics.com
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Allyson Felix ranks #3 in Athletics
Allyson Felix ranks 3rd among Athletics athletes on GOAT Rank and 32nd of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 90.0 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 88, Peak 90, Longevity 92, Honours 92, Statistics 88. Those categories are normalised against the full Athletics reference universe of 309 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 2003–2022 with 16 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 2019, which sets the Peak component at 90. Longevity is the defining strength of the profile at 92 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes olympic golds 7, olympic medals 11, world championship golds 14, world championship medals 20.
Immediately ahead sits Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce on 91.2, a gap of 1.2 points. Directly behind is Haile Gebrselassie on 91.9. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Allyson Felix GOAT Score explained
- Dominance88/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Felix stood above the field while competing. Scored 88/100 against the full Athletics cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 2019. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity92/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 19 years of competition and 16 recorded seasons. Scored 92/100.
- Honours92/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 92/100.
- Statistics88/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 88/100.
Top Felix comparisons
Allyson Felix — frequently asked
- Is Allyson Felix the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Allyson Felix ranks 3rd in Athletics with a GOAT Score of 90.0, behind Carl Lewis on 93.1.
- What is Allyson Felix's GOAT Score?
- 90.0 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 88 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 92 (20%), Honours 92 (20%), Statistics 88 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Allyson Felix rank all time?
- 32nd of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 3rd within Athletics.
- Allyson Felix vs Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce: who ranks higher?
- Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, on 91.2 against Allyson Felix's 90.0 — a margin of 1.2 points.