Who is better, Bolt or McLaughlin-Levrone?
Usain Bolt leads with a GOAT score of 93.2 against 85.5 for Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone — a gap of 7.7 points on GOAT Rank's weighted model.
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Bolt vs McLaughlin-Levrone
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GOAT Rank currently ranks Usain Bolt above Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone: 93.2 vs 85.5. Usain Bolt leads on Honours, Dominance, Longevity.
How the GOAT Score is calculated →GOAT verdictgoatrank.world
BoltWinner
93.2Bolt wins: Dominance, Peak, Longevity, Honours, Statistics
McLaughlin-Levrone
85.5McLaughlin-Levrone wins: no category outright
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Verdict
Weighted GOAT score
🇯🇲 Usain Bolt
93.2
Bolt leads in 5 of 5 weighted categories.
1. Usain Bolt
2. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
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
Through age 21 · Form index 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 McLaughlin-Levrone — 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 | McLaughlin-LevroneActive |
|---|---|---|
| Olympic golds | 8 | 3 |
| World golds | 11 | — |
| World records | 3 | 6 |
| 100m best (s) | 9.58 | — |
| 200m best (s) | 19.19 | — |
| Global finals won | 19 | — |
| World titles | — | 2 |
| Personal best (s) | — | 50.37 |
| World Championship medals | — | 3 |
| Dominance w25% | 98 | 90 |
| Peak w20% | 100 | 94 |
| Longevity w20% | 74 | 66 |
| Honours w20% | 98 | 86 |
| Statistics w15% | 95 | 92 |
Fan vote — data vs the people
GOAT Rank · the data
Bolt93.2
McLaughlin-Levrone85.5
The people
Bolt
McLaughlin-Levrone
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Where does McLaughlin-Levrone beat Bolt?
McLaughlin-Levrone does not lead any of the five categories; Bolt is ahead or level on all of them.
How is the Bolt vs McLaughlin-Levrone score calculated?
Both are scored on peak, dominance, honours, statistics, longevity within their sport. Bolt: 93.2, McLaughlin-Levrone: 85.5.
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