Category profile
- Dominance
- 84
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 84
- Honours
- 88
- Statistics
- 86
Career timeline · Major golds per season
| Season | Major golds per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1615 | |
| 2011 | 1608 | |
| 2012 | 1605 | |
| 2013 | 1603 | |
| 2014 | 1602.52 | |
| 2015 | 1606 | |
| 2016 | 1610 | |
| 2017 | 7620 | |
| 2018 | 7580 | |
| 2019 | 7540 |
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 Mo Farah ranks #45 in Athletics
Mo Farah ranks 45th among Athletics athletes on GOAT Rank and 331st of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 86.3 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 84, Peak 90, Longevity 84, Honours 88, 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 2001–2023 with 10 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 2017, 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 4, world championship golds 6, european golds 5, 5000 m best (s) 766.59.
Immediately ahead sits Caster Semenya on 87.2, a gap of 0.9 points. Directly behind is Nafissatou Thiam on 86.3. 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.
Mo Farah GOAT Score explained
- Dominance84/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Farah 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 2017. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity84/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 22 years of competition and 10 recorded seasons. Scored 84/100.
- Honours88/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 88/100.
- Statistics86/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 86/100.
Top Farah comparisons
Mo Farah — frequently asked
- Is Mo Farah the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Mo Farah ranks 45th in Athletics with a GOAT Score of 86.3, behind Carl Lewis on 93.1.
- What is Mo Farah's GOAT Score?
- 86.3 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 84 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 84 (20%), Honours 88 (20%), Statistics 86 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Mo Farah rank all time?
- 331st of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 45th within Athletics.
- Mo Farah vs Caster Semenya: who ranks higher?
- Caster Semenya, on 87.2 against Mo Farah's 86.3 — a margin of 0.9 points.