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le Clos vs Kallis
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KallisWinner
88.1Kallis wins: Dominance, Longevity, Statistics
le Clos
86.7le Clos wins: Peak, Honours
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Verdict
Cross-sport GOAT score
🇿🇦 Chad le Clos
85.2
87.8 in-sport × 0.97 Global participation & competition depth
le Clos leads in 2 of 5 weighted categories.
1. Chad le Closdepth ×0.97
2. Jacques Kallisdepth ×0.94
Category breakdown
Season form · season output
Career timeline · season output
Cumulative output season by season — the shape of each career against the other.
GOAT pace tracker
Career stage · GOAT pace
Through season 5 · season output1. 🇿🇦 Chad le Clos5 seasons played · career day 2,556567.9 output
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇿🇦 Jacques Kallis5 seasons played · career day 2,191247 output
-56.5% vs le Clos at the same stage
| Ghost race · career day | 30 | 100 | 365 | 1000 | 1825 | 3650 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇿🇦 le Clos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 228.4 | 793.7 |
| 🇿🇦 Kallis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 196 | 427 |
Careers are aligned from debut; the first 5 season periods are measured against the same career window.
| Metric | le ClosActive | KallisRetired |
|---|---|---|
| Dominance w25% | 84 | 88 |
| Peak w20% | 92 | 88 |
| Longevity w20% | 88 | 94 |
| Honours w20% | 88 | 84 |
| Statistics w15% | 88 | 96 |
| Olympic golds | 1 | — |
| Olympic medals | 4 | — |
| World short course golds | 17 | — |
| Commonwealth golds | 8 | — |
| 200m butterfly best (sec) | 112.68 | — |
| Test runs | — | 13,289 |
| Test wickets | — | 292 |
| Test centuries | — | 45 |
| ODI runs | — | 11,579 |
| Test average | — | 55.37 |
| ICC Player of the Year | — | 1 |
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GOAT Rank · the data
Kallis88.1
le Clos86.7
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