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Grimes vs Ledecky

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LedeckyWinner
94.8

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

Grimes
83.0

Grimes wins: no category outright

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇺🇸 Katie Ledecky
94.8

Ledecky leads in 5 of 5 weighted categories. Distance freestyle untouched for over a decade across four Olympic Games.

GrimesInsufficient verified career data to calculate a reliable GOAT Score.

1. Katie Ledecky
94.8
2. Katie Grimes
Pending verification

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

Through age 21 · Form index per season
1. 🇺🇸 Katie Ledecky636 major golds
7 seasons by age 21 · 90.9 per season

Setting the pace at age 21

No verified birth date for Grimes — 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.

MetricGrimesActiveLedeckyActive
Olympic medals214
World Championship titles1
World Championship medals6
US titles5
Open water world medals2
Olympic golds9
World titles (LC)21
World records set16
Olympic Games4
Dominance w25%8297
Peak w20%9296
Longevity w20%7090
Honours w20%8696
Statistics w15%8694

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GOAT Rank · the data
Ledecky94.8
Grimes83.0
The people
Grimes
Ledecky

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