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Powell vs Coe

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CoeWinner
87.5

Coe wins: Dominance, Peak, Honours

Powell
84.3

Powell wins: Longevity

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇬🇧 Sebastian Coe
87.5

Coe leads in 4 of 5 weighted categories. Back-to-back Olympic 1500 m golds and three world records in 41 days.

1. Sebastian Coe
87.5
2. Asafa Powell
84.3

Category breakdown

Season form · Major golds per season

Career timeline · Major golds per season

Cumulative output season by season — the shape of each career against the other.

GOAT pace tracker

Career stage · GOAT pace

Through season 5 · Major golds per season
1. 🇬🇧 Sebastian Coe5 seasons played · career day 3,286512.3 major golds
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇯🇲 Asafa Powell5 seasons played · career day 2,92148.9 major golds
-90.5% vs Coe at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇯🇲 Powell000019.6458.69
🇬🇧 Coe0000101.73512.26

Careers are aligned at debut, so a rookie's first 5 seasons are measured against the same window in a legend's career — Yamal against Messi at the same age-stage, a tour rookie against Tiger Woods in 1996.

MetricPowellRetiredCoeRetired
World records212
Olympic golds12
Sub-10-second races97
100m best (sec)9.72
World Championship medals5
Olympic medals4
800 m best (s)101.73
1500 m best (s)212.18
European golds2
Dominance w25%8088
Peak w20%8894
Longevity w20%8878
Honours w20%7888
Statistics w15%9090

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GOAT Rank · the data
Coe87.5
Powell84.3
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