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Wellbrock vs Hackett

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GOAT verdictgoatrank.world
HackettWinner
86.2

Hackett wins: Longevity

Wellbrock
85.9

Wellbrock wins: Dominance, Peak

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇦🇺 Grant Hackett
86.2

Hackett leads in 3 of 5 weighted categories. Back-to-back Olympic 1500 m titles and unbeaten in the event for a decade.

1. Grant Hackett
86.2
2. Florian Wellbrock
85.9

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. 🇦🇺 Grant Hackett5 seasons played · career day 2,1914,409 major golds
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇩🇪 Florian Wellbrock5 seasons played · career day 1,82613 major golds
-99.7% vs Hackett at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇩🇪 Wellbrock00131026
🇦🇺 Hackett0008902,6557,037.56

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.

MetricWellbrockActiveHackettRetired
Olympic gold medals1
Olympic medals37
World Championship golds810
European Championship golds6
Open water 10 km world titles3
Olympic golds3
World records2
1500 m best (s)874.56
Unbeaten years at 1500 m10
Dominance w25%8684
Peak w20%9290
Longevity w20%7884
Honours w20%8686
Statistics w15%8888

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GOAT Rank · the data
Hackett86.2
Wellbrock85.9
The people
Wellbrock
Hackett

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