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Bashkatov vs Phelps

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PhelpsWinner
98.1

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

Bashkatov
30.6

Bashkatov wins: no category outright

🇲🇩 Yuri Bashkatov🇺🇸 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. Yuri Bashkatov
30.6

Category breakdown

Season form · Form index per season

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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 Bashkatov — 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.

MetricBashkatovRetiredPhelpsRetired
Olympic golds—23
Olympic medals—28
World titles (LC)—26
World records set—39
Olympic Games—5
Golds in one Games—8
Dominance w25%30.599
Peak w20%32.5100
Longevity w20%28.593
Honours w20%31.5100
Statistics w15%29.598
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GOAT Rank · the data
Phelps98.1
Bashkatov30.6
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