Category profile
- Dominance
- 80
- Peak
- 90
- Longevity
- 78
- Honours
- 82
- Statistics
- 86
Career timeline · Major golds per season
| Season | Major golds per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 45 | |
| 1983 | 52 | |
| 1984 | 59 | |
| 1985 | 66 | |
| 1986 | 74 | |
| 1987 | 81 | |
| 1988 | 88 | |
| 1989 | 95 | |
| 1990 | 75 | |
| 1991 | 55 | |
| 1992 | 35 |
Data sources
- World Athletics records
- Olympedia
- European Athletics archives
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Yelena Belevskaya ranks #158 in Athletics
Yelena Belevskaya ranks 158th among Athletics athletes on GOAT Rank and 1343rd of 4013 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 82.9 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 80, Peak 90, Longevity 78, Honours 82, Statistics 86. Those categories are normalised against the full Athletics reference universe of 308 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1982–1992 with 11 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1989, 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 european championship titles 1, world championship medals 1, personal best in centimetres 714, european indoor medals 2.
Immediately ahead sits Gunder Hägg on 84.7, a gap of 1.8 points. Directly behind is Mikele Barber on 82.8. 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.
Yelena Belevskaya GOAT Score explained
- Dominance80/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Belevskaya stood above the field while competing. Scored 80/100 against the full Athletics cohort.
- Peak90/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1989. Scored 90/100.
- Longevity78/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 10 years of competition and 11 recorded seasons. Scored 78/100.
- Honours82/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 82/100.
- Statistics86/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 86/100.
Top Belevskaya comparisons
Yelena Belevskaya — frequently asked
- Is Yelena Belevskaya the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Yelena Belevskaya ranks 158th in Athletics with a GOAT Score of 82.9, behind Usain Bolt on 93.2.
- What is Yelena Belevskaya's GOAT Score?
- 82.9 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 80 (25%), Peak 90 (20%), Longevity 78 (20%), Honours 82 (20%), Statistics 86 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Yelena Belevskaya rank all time?
- 1343rd of 4013 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 158th within Athletics.
- Yelena Belevskaya vs Gunder Hägg: who ranks higher?
- Gunder Hägg, on 84.7 against Yelena Belevskaya's 82.9 — a margin of 1.8 points.