Category profile
- Dominance
- 84
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 84
- Honours
- 86
- Statistics
- 88
Career timeline · Form index per season
| Season | Form index per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 890 | |
| 1998 | 885 | |
| 1999 | 880 | |
| 2000 | 878 | |
| 2001 | 876 | |
| 2002 | 874.56 | |
| 2003 | 876 | |
| 2004 | 878 | |
| 2005 | 882 | |
| 2006 | 888 |
Data sources
- World Aquatics
- Olympedia
- Olympics.com
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Grant Hackett ranks #13 in Swimming
Grant Hackett ranks 13th among Swimming athletes on GOAT Rank and 257th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 86.2 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 84, Peak 90, Longevity 84, Honours 86, Statistics 88. Those categories are normalised against the full Swimming reference universe of 288 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1996–2016 with 10 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1997, which sets the Peak component at 90. Peak is the defining strength of the profile at 90 out of 100, and it carries 20% of the final score. The underlying career record includes olympic golds 3, world championship golds 10, world records 2, 1500 m best (s) 874.56.
Immediately ahead sits Yana Klochkova on 87.9, a gap of 1.7 points. Directly behind is Vladimir Salnikov on 87.1. 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.
Grant Hackett GOAT Score explained
- Dominance84/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Hackett stood above the field while competing. Scored 84/100 against the full Swimming cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1997. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity84/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 20 years of competition and 10 recorded seasons. Scored 84/100.
- Honours86/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 86/100.
- Statistics88/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 88/100.
Top Hackett comparisons
Grant Hackett — frequently asked
- Is Grant Hackett the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Grant Hackett ranks 13th in Swimming with a GOAT Score of 86.2, behind Michael Phelps on 98.1.
- What is Grant Hackett's GOAT Score?
- 86.2 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 84 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 84 (20%), Honours 86 (20%), Statistics 88 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Grant Hackett rank all time?
- 257th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 13th within Swimming.
- Grant Hackett vs Yana Klochkova: who ranks higher?
- Yana Klochkova, on 87.9 against Grant Hackett's 86.2 — a margin of 1.7 points.