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Belmonte vs McKeon

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BelmonteWinner
87.0

Belmonte wins: Longevity

McKeon
87.0

McKeon wins: Dominance, Peak, Honours, Statistics

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Verdict

Weighted GOAT score
🇪🇸 Mireia Belmonte
87.0

Belmonte leads in 1 of 5 weighted categories. Spain's first female Olympic swimming champion, in the 200m butterfly in 2016.

1. Mireia Belmonte
87.0
2. Emma McKeon
87.0

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. 🇪🇸 Mireia Belmonte5 seasons played · career day 2,55624 major golds
Setting the pace at this stage
2. 🇦🇺 Emma McKeon5 seasons played · career day 2,55622 major golds
-8.3% vs Belmonte at the same stage
Ghost race · career day30100365100018253650
🇪🇸 Belmonte00001037
🇦🇺 McKeon0000734

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.

MetricBelmonteActiveMcKeonRetired
Olympic golds16
Olympic medals414
World Championship golds2
Short course world titles10
European titles8
World Championship medals20
Commonwealth golds11
100m freestyle best (sec)51.96
Dominance w25%8486
Peak w20%9092
Longevity w20%8678
Honours w20%8890
Statistics w15%8890

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GOAT Rank · the data
Belmonte87.0
McKeon87.0
The people
Belmonte
McKeon

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