Category profile
- Dominance
- 86
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 80
- Honours
- 88
- Statistics
- 88
Career timeline · Major golds per season
| Season | Major golds per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6508 | |
| 2016 | 6810 | |
| 2017 | 7013 | |
| 2018 | 6816 | |
| 2019 | 6819 | |
| 2020 | 6791 | |
| 2021 | 6947 | |
| 2022 | 6752 | |
| 2023 | 6880 |
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 Nafissatou Thiam ranks #46 in Athletics
Nafissatou Thiam ranks 46th among Athletics athletes on GOAT Rank and 332nd 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 86, Peak 90, Longevity 80, Honours 88, Statistics 88. 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 2011–present with 9 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 3, world championship golds 2, european golds 2, heptathlon best 7013.
Immediately ahead sits Mo Farah on 86.3, a gap of 0.0 points. Directly behind is Asafa Powell on 84.3. 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.
Nafissatou Thiam GOAT Score explained
- Dominance86/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Thiam stood above the field while competing. Scored 86/100 against the full Athletics cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 2017. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity80/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 15 years of competition and 9 recorded seasons. Scored 80/100.
- 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 Thiam comparisons
Nafissatou Thiam — frequently asked
- Is Nafissatou Thiam the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Nafissatou Thiam ranks 46th in Athletics with a GOAT Score of 86.3, behind Carl Lewis on 93.1.
- What is Nafissatou Thiam's GOAT Score?
- 86.3 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 86 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 80 (20%), Honours 88 (20%), Statistics 88 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Nafissatou Thiam rank all time?
- 332nd of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 46th within Athletics.
- Nafissatou Thiam vs Mo Farah: who ranks higher?
- Nafissatou Thiam, on 86.3 against Mo Farah's 86.3 — a margin of 0.0 points.