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Ashford vs Flo-Jo

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AshfordWinner
89.5

Ashford wins: Longevity, Honours

Flo-Jo
85.5

Flo-Jo wins: Dominance, Peak

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇺🇸 Evelyn Ashford
89.5

Ashford leads in 3 of 5 weighted categories. Olympic 100 m champion in 1984 and a four-time Olympic gold medallist across four Games.

1. Evelyn Ashford
89.5
2. Florence Griffith Joyner
85.5

Category breakdown

Season form · Major golds per season

Career timeline · Major golds per season

Cumulative output season by season — the shape of each career against the other.

GOAT pace tracker

Through age 24 · Major golds per season
1. 🇺🇸 Florence Griffith Joyner48 major golds
1 season by age 24 · 48 per season

Setting the pace at age 24

No verified birth date for Ashford — shown in the pro-debut view instead.

Every career is cut at the season the athlete turned 24, so a rookie today is measured against exactly what a legend had banked by the same birthday.

MetricAshfordRetiredFlo-JoRetired
Olympic gold medals4
Olympic medals55
World records22
100 m personal best10.76
Olympic Games contested5
Olympic golds3
World golds1
100m best (s)10.49
200m best (s)21.34
Dominance w25%8892
Peak w20%9299
Longevity w20%8858
Honours w20%9088
Statistics w15%9090

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GOAT Rank · the data
Ashford89.5
Flo-Jo85.5
The people
Ashford
Flo-Jo

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