Category profile
- Dominance
- 82
- Peak
- 88
- Longevity
- 90
- Honours
- 88
- Statistics
- 88
Career timeline · Form index per season
| Season | Form index per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 255 | |
| 2010 | 252 | |
| 2011 | 250 | |
| 2012 | 248 | |
| 2013 | 246.36 | |
| 2014 | 248 | |
| 2015 | 249 | |
| 2016 | 250.5 | |
| 2017 | 252 | |
| 2018 | 254 | |
| 2019 | 256 |
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 Katinka Hosszú ranks #7 in Swimming
Katinka Hosszú ranks 7th among Swimming athletes on GOAT Rank and 149th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 86.9 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 82, Peak 88, Longevity 90, Honours 88, 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 2004–2023 with 11 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 2019, which sets the Peak component at 88. Longevity 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 15, world records 4, 400 m medley record (s) 246.36.
Immediately ahead sits Chad le Clos on 87.8, a gap of 0.9 points. Directly behind is Aaron Peirsol on 89.2. 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.
Katinka Hosszú GOAT Score explained
- Dominance82/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Hosszú stood above the field while competing. Scored 82/100 against the full Swimming cohort.
- Peak88/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 2019. Scored 88/100.
- Longevity90/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 19 years of competition and 11 recorded seasons. Scored 90/100.
- Honours88/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 88/100.
- Statistics88/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 88/100.
Top Hosszú comparisons
Katinka Hosszú — frequently asked
- Is Katinka Hosszú the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Katinka Hosszú ranks 7th in Swimming with a GOAT Score of 86.9, behind Michael Phelps on 98.1.
- What is Katinka Hosszú's GOAT Score?
- 86.9 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 82 (25%), Peak 88 (20%), Longevity 90 (20%), Honours 88 (20%), Statistics 88 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Katinka Hosszú rank all time?
- 149th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 7th within Swimming.
- Katinka Hosszú vs Chad le Clos: who ranks higher?
- Chad le Clos, on 87.8 against Katinka Hosszú's 86.9 — a margin of 0.9 points.