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Frölander vs Coutts

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GOAT verdictgoatrank.world
FrölanderWinner
80.2

Frölander wins: Longevity

Coutts
80.1

Coutts wins: Dominance, Peak, Honours, Statistics

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇸🇪 Lars Frölander
80.2

Frölander leads in 1 of 5 weighted categories. Olympic 100 m butterfly champion in Sydney 2000 across a five-Games career.

1. Lars Frölander
80.2
2. Alicia Coutts
80.1

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. 🇦🇺 Alicia Coutts5 seasons played · career day 1,826387 major golds
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇸🇪 Lars Frölander5 seasons played · career day 1,826346 major golds
-10.6% vs Coutts at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇸🇪 Frölander0056118264700
🇦🇺 Coutts0055123291693

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.

MetricFrölanderRetiredCouttsRetired
Olympic gold medals11
Olympic Games contested5
Short course world titles6
European Championship golds7
Swedish records set30
Olympic medals5
World Championship titles3
Commonwealth Games golds9
Global finals contested12
Dominance w25%7476
Peak w20%8688
Longevity w20%8872
Honours w20%7684
Statistics w15%7882

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GOAT Rank · the data
Frölander80.2
Coutts80.1
The people
Frölander
Coutts

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