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Berndt vs Calligaris

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GOAT verdictgoatrank.world
CalligarisWinner
80.9

Calligaris wins: Dominance, Peak, Honours

Berndt
80.8

Berndt wins: Longevity

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇮🇹 Novella Calligaris
80.9

Calligaris leads in 4 of 5 weighted categories. Italy's first Olympic swimming medallist and a world champion in 1973.

1. Novella Calligaris
80.9
2. Jens-Peter Berndt
80.8

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. 🇩🇪 Jens-Peter Berndt5 seasons played · career day 1,825370 major golds
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇮🇹 Novella Calligaris5 seasons played · career day 1,826355 major golds
-4.1% vs Berndt at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇩🇪 Berndt0050115370542
🇮🇹 Calligaris0045103258486

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.

MetricBerndtRetiredCalligarisRetired
European titles1
World Championship medals1
Olympic appearances2
National titles8
Olympic finals2
Olympic medals3
World Championship titles1
World records set1
European medals3
Italian titles20
Dominance w25%7880
Peak w20%8892
Longevity w20%7466
Honours w20%8082
Statistics w15%8686

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GOAT Rank · the data
Calligaris80.9
Berndt80.8
The people
Berndt
Calligaris

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