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Babashoff vs Henricks

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BabashoffWinner
79.2

Babashoff wins: Longevity, Statistics

Henricks
79.2

Henricks wins: Dominance, Peak, Honours

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇺🇸 Deborah Babashoff
79.2

Babashoff leads in 2 of 5 weighted categories. Pan American champion and a world championship relay medallist.

1. Deborah Babashoff
79.2
2. Jon Henricks
79.2

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. 🇦🇺 Jon Henricks5 seasons played · career day 1,825420 major golds
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇺🇸 Deborah Babashoff5 seasons played · career day 1,825363 major golds
-13.6% vs Henricks at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇺🇸 Babashoff0050114363469
🇦🇺 Henricks0066146420556

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.

MetricBabashoffRetiredHenricksRetired
Pan American gold medals1
World Championship medals1
United States titles3
National team years6
Relay medals2
Olympic gold medals2
World records6
Commonwealth Games golds3
Australian titles8
Olympic Games contested2
Dominance w25%7680
Peak w20%8692
Longevity w20%7262
Honours w20%8082
Statistics w15%8480

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GOAT Rank · the data
Babashoff79.2
Henricks79.2
The people
Babashoff
Henricks

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