Category profile
- Dominance
- 80
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 70
- Honours
- 80
- Statistics
- 86
Career timeline · Form index per season
| Season | Form index per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 3 | |
| 2018 | 4 | |
| 2019 | 5 | |
| 2020 | 4 | |
| 2021 | 5 | |
| 2022 | 4 | |
| 2023 | 2 | |
| 2024 | 3 |
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 Kristóf Milák ranks #36 in Swimming
Kristóf Milák ranks 36th among Swimming athletes on GOAT Rank and 724th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 80.9 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 80, Peak 90, Longevity 70, Honours 80, Statistics 86. 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 2016–present with 8 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 2019, 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 1, olympic medals 3, world championship golds 3, world records 1.
Immediately ahead sits César Cielo on 81.4, a gap of 0.5 points. Directly behind is Summer McIntosh on 81.7. 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.
Kristóf Milák GOAT Score explained
- Dominance80/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Milák stood above the field while competing. Scored 80/100 against the full Swimming cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 2019. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity70/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 10 years of competition and 8 recorded seasons. Scored 70/100.
- Honours80/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 80/100.
- Statistics86/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 86/100.
Top Milák comparisons
Kristóf Milák — frequently asked
- Is Kristóf Milák the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Kristóf Milák ranks 36th in Swimming with a GOAT Score of 80.9, behind Michael Phelps on 98.1.
- What is Kristóf Milák's GOAT Score?
- 80.9 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 80 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 70 (20%), Honours 80 (20%), Statistics 86 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Kristóf Milák rank all time?
- 724th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 36th within Swimming.
- Kristóf Milák vs César Cielo: who ranks higher?
- César Cielo, on 81.4 against Kristóf Milák's 80.9 — a margin of 0.5 points.