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Bottom vs Phelps

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PhelpsWinner
98.1

Phelps wins: Dominance, Peak, Longevity, Honours, Statistics

Bottom
30.3

Bottom wins: no category outright

🇺🇸 Joe Bottom🇺🇸 Michael Phelps
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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇺🇸 Michael Phelps
98.1

Phelps leads in 5 of 5 weighted categories. 23 Olympic golds across five Games — the most decorated Olympian in history.

1. Michael Phelps
98.1
2. Joe Bottom
30.3

Category breakdown

Season form · Form index per season

GOAT pace tracker

Through age 21 · Form index per season
1. 🇺🇸 Michael Phelps548 major golds
7 seasons by age 21 · 78.3 per season

Setting the pace at age 21

No verified birth date for Bottom — 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.

MetricBottomRetiredPhelpsRetired
International Swimming Hall of Fame1—
Olympic golds—23
Olympic medals—28
World titles (LC)—26
World records set—39
Olympic Games—5
Golds in one Games—8
Dominance w25%30.699
Peak w20%32.6100
Longevity w20%26.293
Honours w20%34100
Statistics w15%27.298
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GOAT Rank · the data
Phelps98.1
Bottom30.3
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