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Bolt vs Lewis
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BoltWinner
93.2Bolt wins: Dominance, Peak, Honours, Statistics
Lewis
93.1Lewis wins: Longevity
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Verdict
Weighted GOAT score
🇯🇲 Usain Bolt
93.2
Bolt leads in 4 of 5 weighted categories.
1. Usain Bolt
2. Carl Lewis
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
Through age 21 · Major golds per season
1. 🇯🇲 Usain Bolt224 major golds
4 seasons by age 21 · 56 per season
Setting the pace at age 21
No verified birth date for Lewis — shown in the pro-debut view instead.
Every career is cut at the season the athlete turned 21, so a rookie today is measured against exactly what a legend had banked by the same birthday.
| Metric | BoltRetired | LewisRetired |
|---|---|---|
| Olympic golds | 8 | 9 |
| World golds | 11 | — |
| World records | 3 | 3 |
| 100m best (s) | 9.58 | — |
| 200m best (s) | 19.19 | — |
| Global finals won | 19 | — |
| World Championship golds | — | 8 |
| Olympic medals | — | 10 |
| Long jump win streak | — | 65 |
| 100 m personal best | — | 9.86 |
| Dominance w25% | 98 | 93 |
| Peak w20% | 100 | 94 |
| Longevity w20% | 74 | 92 |
| Honours w20% | 98 | 94 |
| Statistics w15% | 95 | 92 |
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GOAT Rank · the data
Bolt93.2
Lewis93.1
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