Category profile
- Dominance
- 84
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 74
- Honours
- 84
- Statistics
- 86
Career timeline · Major golds per season
| Season | Major golds per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 2 | |
| 1998 | 3 | |
| 1999 | 4 | |
| 2000 | 3 | |
| 2001 | 3 | |
| 2002 | 2 | |
| 2003 | 2 | |
| 2004 | 2 | |
| 2005 | 1 | |
| 2006 | 1 | |
| 2007 | 1 | |
| 2008 | 0 |
Data sources
- World Athletics
- Olympedia
- IOC
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Maurice Greene ranks #73 in Athletics
Maurice Greene ranks 73rd among Athletics athletes on GOAT Rank and 586th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 83.5 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 84, Peak 90, Longevity 74, Honours 84, Statistics 86. 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 1995–2008 with 12 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1999, 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 2, world championship golds 5, world records 2, 100m best (sec) 9.79.
Immediately ahead sits Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone on 85.5, a gap of 2.0 points. Directly behind is Florence Griffith Joyner on 85.5. 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.
Maurice Greene GOAT Score explained
- Dominance84/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Greene stood above the field while competing. Scored 84/100 against the full Athletics cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1999. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity74/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 13 years of competition and 12 recorded seasons. Scored 74/100.
- Honours84/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 84/100.
- Statistics86/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 86/100.
Top Greene comparisons
Maurice Greene — frequently asked
- Is Maurice Greene the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Maurice Greene ranks 73rd in Athletics with a GOAT Score of 83.5, behind Carl Lewis on 93.1.
- What is Maurice Greene's GOAT Score?
- 83.5 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 84 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 74 (20%), Honours 84 (20%), Statistics 86 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Maurice Greene rank all time?
- 586th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 73rd within Athletics.
- Maurice Greene vs Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone: who ranks higher?
- Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, on 85.5 against Maurice Greene's 83.5 — a margin of 2.0 points.