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Kapás vs Beardsley

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KapásWinner
80.5

Kapás wins: Longevity, Honours

Beardsley
80.5

Beardsley wins: Dominance, Peak, Statistics

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇭🇺 Boglárka Kapás
80.5

Kapás leads in 2 of 5 weighted categories. World 200 m butterfly champion in 2019 and an Olympic bronze medallist.

1. Boglárka Kapás
80.5
2. Craig Beardsley
80.5

Category breakdown

Season form · Form index per season

Career timeline · Form index 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 · Form index per season
1. 🇺🇸 Craig Beardsley5 seasons played · career day 1,825373 major golds
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇭🇺 Boglárka Kapás5 seasons played · career day 1,825344 major golds
-7.8% vs Beardsley at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇭🇺 Kapás0050110344688
🇺🇸 Beardsley0050124373428

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.

MetricKapásRetiredBeardsleyRetired
World Championship titles1
Olympic medals1
European titles3
Hungarian records5
Olympic Games contested3
World records set2
Pan American titles1
US titles5
NCAA titles2
World ranking number ones3
Dominance w25%7482
Peak w20%8692
Longevity w20%8264
Honours w20%8278
Statistics w15%8088

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GOAT Rank · the data
Kapás80.5
Beardsley80.5
The people
Kapás
Beardsley

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